Numismatist Adam Crum is launching a new venture, Adam Crum’s Finest Known, offering numismatic rarities and precious metals.

All eyes will be on Heritage’s April 25 Platinum Night auction at the CSNS 80th annual convention in metropolitan Chicago, April 24 to 27.

A new column makes its debut, and we look at a medal containing metal flown into space and explore a token with links to riots in Great Britain in the 1790s.

It is tough to imagine a nicer lightly circulated gold coin than this 1875-CC Coronet $5 half eagle graded PCGS Very Fine 30.

Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers is focusing on the numismatic literature of North America for the firm’s Sale 152, set for April 27.

Coins struck at the West Point Mint, both quarter dollars and cents, drew the greatest attention of readers during the past week.

The offered 1914 cent was graded Proof 67 brown by PCGS, although the colors are much more varied, with violet undertones and rich blue seen on both sides.

A theft in Colorado of three American numismatic rarities with a combined value of nearly $2.1 million includes the Waldo C. Newcomer 1894-S Barber dime.

A 1962 Washington quarter dollar graded PCGS Mint State 67+ realized $26,400 in Heritage’s recent auction in Dallas.

Two million coins each of all five 2019 America the Beautiful quarter dollars are being struck at the West Point Mint for circulation release.

Coin World interview with Tom Caldwell, founder of Northeast Numismatics.

The annual American Numismatic Association Summer Seminar remains one of the best deals in our shared hobby and should not be missed.

A GAO report recommends expanding the Treasury secretary’s authority to change coinage metals and reaches a surprise conclusion on $1 coins vs. $1 notes.

Customers disappointed with the quality of the Proof 2019-W Lincoln cent the U.S. Mint shipped with orders of the 2019 Proof set can return the products.

The past week’s most-read articles focused on 2019-W cent packaging, recovery of a missing coin, and reports about counterfeit notes and coins.

Answers to collector questions, market trends for the 1895-O Barber dime, and the impact of the first grading guide are all the focus of columns in Coin World.

The inaugural episode of the Coin World Podcast features hosts Jeff Starck and Chris Bulfinch discussing news of the day and why they collect coins.

Benjamin Franklin appears twice on an AU-58 double-struck 1959-D Franklin half dollar that brought $15,600 at Stack’s Bowers’ Feb. 28 sale in Baltimore.

The MS-63 Pittman-Pogue 1800 Draped Bust silver dollar is the AMERICAI reverse variety. It sold for $60,000 Feb. 28 (beating the Pogue auction price).

18th century gold eagles from the Philadelphia Mint are expensive, but a small problem can make an otherwise unobtainable example affordable.