Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas introduces legislation in the 117th Congress calling for a congressional gold medal for the 36th president, Texan Lyndon Baines Johnson, a third attempt for the recognition.

After a successful online event in August of 2020, organizers are collecting presenters for another virtual installment of the three-day Newman Numismatic Portal Symposium, set for March 20 through 21.

Size and color can be the tipoff that a coin was struck erroneously on an incorrect planchet, and these pieces are often highly desirable because the error is easily understood.

A late January Ira and Larry Goldberg auction offers a newly discovered 1857-O gold $20 double eagle that emerged from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and is now graded PCGS MS-61 prooflike, certified by CAC.

Jeff and Larry recount the weekend experiences of getting back to buying coins in person and attending events. There’s a dive back to 1973, the Carson City GSA sale, a tribute to Alex Trebek and outrage expressed in the letters.

Legislation seeks to supplement the law that created a congressional gold medal for Merchant Mariners of WWII, to fund purchase and distribution of bronze duplicates for eligible WWII service personnel.

The incredible discovery of a previously unreported mule, bearing the obverse of a Sacagawea dollar and reverse of a Presidential dollar, should electrify the hobby and start a search for more.

The Martin Van Buren Presidential silver medal, celebrating the 8th U.S. President, is next in that U.S. Mint series, available beginning Feb. 1 priced at $65.

During a pandemic affecting nearly aspect of life, buying and selling rare coins and paper money seemed undeterred, as a recap of 2020 reveals a strong collectibles market.

With the signing of legislation allowing creation of silver dollars marking the centennial of the transition from Morgan to Peace designs, members of two panels will meet to review the designs.

No quarter dollars in 2021 will bear the W Mint mark of the West Point Mint; the 2019 and 2020 coins mark the extent of the short-term program designed to stimulate collector interest.

The comprehensive law legislates quarter dollar programs through 2030 and overall coinage redesign for 2026, and authorizes designing and striking U.S. Olympic medals.

Congress recently received the U.S. Mint's latest biennial research report detailing alternatives compositions the Mint has prepared for circulating coins, including the cent.

Numismatic Guaranty Corp. recently authenticated a coin having a Sacagawea dollar obverse and a Presidential reverse, the first known example of this die muling.

The excitement is building around the creation of modern versions of the Morgan and Peace dollars to celebrate the centennial of the design switch with the quarter dollar changes also drawing readers.

Jeff and Larry take a look at the new reverse design of the quarter that will be coming later in the year. Keeping the colonial theme, the discussion moves to commemoratives and the world as we knew it in 2007 with news and interesting topics of the day.

When changes happen, errors happen as well, as evidenced by the 1964 Kennedy half dollar that ended up being struck on a planchet intended for a 1965 quarter dollar.

The only known 1974-D aluminum cent will be brought forth from the U.S. Mint's vault for display in the Denver Mint's public galleries, viewable when public tours resume at some as yet unknown time.

Sometimes, a coin will be struck on a planchet intended for another denomination, leading to an error coin that can be explained to everyone, including those with little numismatic knowledge.

The final offering in the America the Beautiful series will begin turning up among circulated coins, the 56th issue, honoring Alabama's Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site.