With reduced competition for high-end Barber half dollars, solid values can be found at auction, as for this MS-66 1904-O example that brought $8,100 at the Dallas CSNS auction.

Beware of purchasing bullion through social media sites, as the Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation is finding operations that are selling fakes.

Jeff and Chris interview Dan Carr, the owner and operator of the Moonlight Mint, a private mint in Colorado. They take the opportunity to discuss private mint products, read a listener email, and debut Jeff's numismatic one-man show.

A 1920 Assay Commission medal designed by George Morgan that realized $408 in Stack’s Bowers Galleries' March 18 auction features president Woodrow Wilson.

A top quality medal from the 1950s that features design work from Gilroy Roberts and Frank Gasparro realized $3,960 in a Stack's Bowers auction earlier this year.

The old saying, "The show must go on," may not have a numismatic origin, but it is at the heart of deliberations today by the promoters of coin shows and conventions.

The Assay Commission is a thing of the past, but the medals issued during its existence from 1797 to 1977 have a lasting attraction, as results of a March Stack's Bowers sale show.

The dedicated commitment to research exemplified by the late Eric P. Newman goes on with the annual award of grants to support original numismatic research.

The "Dazzling Rarities Collection" heads the Stack's Bowers Galleries auction on June 18 and 19, featuring top quality 19th century Seated Liberty silver coins.

The month of June starts with the latest U.S. Mint offerings on sale with the release of bags and rolls of circulation-quality 2020 Kennedy half dollars.

ANA organizers are moving forward with plans to hold the annual World's Fair of Money despite uncertain conditions and no updated direction from government officials about public events.

The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee has several decisions to make at their meeting June 23, with designs for medals and coins awaiting review.

The American Eagle series, with news about privy marks, low mintage figures and the wide variety of 2020 issues, dominated reader attention and will likely remain a hot topic.

Heritage offers June 15 more than 100 examples of small-denomination, private-issue gold coins, known as fractional gold, that arose from the challenge of finding small change in California's Gold Rush era.

Jeff and Chris interview Jeff Shevlin, an expert on "so-called dollars," an important category of American exonumia. The two also investigate Federal Reserve Notes with some strange connections to the Kennedy Assassination, while Chris changes things up by asking Jeff the trivia question.

The Mint will issue a Proof 2020-W End of World War II 75th Anniversary American Eagle silver dollar, the sixth for the series this year. Is the Mint issuing too many in the series?

An MS-65 1921-S 5-cent coin with a major obverse die break sold for $6,756.25 in May, below Legend's estimate but above the $5,640 a similarly graded example brought in April.

A surprising price for a 1941-S dime, commentary on the mintage for a special gold American Eagle and news about arrests in a counterfeiting ring drew reader interest.

Six different American Eagles in silver will originate in three different places during 2020 with the release date of some of those offerings still to be decided by the Mint.

The latest announcement of U.S. Mint-produced items of numismatic interest is a three-coin set of 2020 Weir Farm National Historic Site quarter dollars with no limits and no release date.