A Proof 2020-W End of World War II 75th Anniversary American Eagle silver dollar with a mintage limit of 75,000 coins, and a household-order limit of one coin, is planned by the U.S. Mint.

The key date PCGS MS-64+ 1918/7-D Indian Head 5-cent coin in Legend's May 14 Recency 38 auction is a rare high-grade survivor and topped its estimate, selling at $99,875.

The top-graded 1925-D five-cent coin, an MS-66+ coin that illustrates the issue at PCGS CoinFacts site, sold at Legend's May 14 Regency auction for $34,075.

The ANA's manager of development has some new responsibilities, as Donna Frater steps into the combined role of director of development and membership.

Jeff and Chris discuss the emerging exonumic material that takes the COVID-19 pandemic as its theme, and connect the material to Bryan dollars from the 1890s. They also take a look at an edition of Coin World published in 1970.

The $3,840 a top-grade 1941-S dime realized at auction April 23, compared to recent non-PL prices, shows the coin benefited from an expanded use of the Prooflike quality indicator.

The U.S. Mint will limit a special American Eagle gold coin to a mintage of 1,945, the lowest for the series by far. Will the Mint's customer say "No more" to this artificial rarity?

Anticipation is running high as a pair of double eagles in Heritage's Long Beach auction in June represent before-and-after examples of a historic design transition.

Features appearing in the June 2020 issue of Coin World include the cover feature about collecting pattern coinage, medals in The Frick Collection, and volcanoes on paper money.

While COVID-19 has caused numerous show cancellations, auctions remain a bright spot, as sales moved online attract avid attention and ready buyers.

The future release of the Proof 2020-W End of World War II 75th Anniversary American Eagle gold $50 coin will have a symbolic low mintage.

The planned June Long Beach Expo has fallen victim to the existing "stay at home" orders in the state of California, but the planned auction will take place online on the scheduled dates.

A 1918/7-S Standing Liberty quarter dollar graded VF-25 in an old PCGS "rattler" holder demonstrates how those early holders paired with conservative grading affect value.

Jeff and Chris have a long conversation with Pierre Fricke, an expert in Confederate paper money. Numerous fascinating anecdotes ensue.

An MS-67 High Relief 1921 Peace dollar, none finer, realized $38,400 in Heritage's April 23 to 26 Dallas auctions, and compares to a 1907 Saint-Gaudens, High Relief double eagle.

All of the 2020-S Silver Proof sets that were produced before the San Francisco Mint closed for six weeks are sold. We await word from the Mint on new production.

In the year of the U.S. government census, cent specialist Charles Daughtrey proposes a different census, a crowd-sourced survey sampling the millions of Lincoln cents in circulation.

Top performing world paper money lots, exquisitely preserved early Lincoln cents, and Philadelphia Mint American Eagle production piqued interest in this week's most read articles.

While the limited run 2019-W American Liberty .9999 fine gold $100 coin is still available from the U.S. Mint, one grade short of perfection sells at a discount in the secondary market.

Jeff and Chris interview Gerald Tebben, a former reporter for the Columbus Dispatch and longtime Coin World writer who has written on a broad range of numismatic topics and wrote the Dispatch's coin column between 1980 and 2005.