News about the Enhanced Reverse Proof American Eagle silver dollar and prison sentences for a group of UK treasure hunters topped the news last week.

Often when a coin returns to auction quickly it's not obvious why, but comparing results can be interesting, as with the ex-Pogue PCGS VF-25 1810 Capped Bust gold $5 half eagle, which saw a nice bounce in value in its 2018 return to auction.

Insured for $50 million, the Tyrant Collection of United States gold $10 eagles will go on public display for the first time Feb. 20 to 22 at the Long Beach Coin, Currency, Stamp & Sports Collectibles Expo in Long Beach, California.

Presidential inaugural medals remain very popular with both numismatists and political history collectors, and this bronze Herbert Hoover example performed well along with others from the Roaring Twenties at Stack’s Bowers’ Nov. 13 Baltimore Expo auction.

The Royal Mint celebrates the classic Christmas cartoon The Snowman on new 50-penny coins.

The Bureau of Engraving and Printing will release the Year of the Rat 2020 set in its Lucky Money Lunar Calendar product line at noon on Dec. 11.

Jeff and Chris have an illuminating conversation with Peter Tompa of the Ancient Coin Collectors' Guild (ACCG) and read some letters and headlines from Dec. 7, 1988.

Calvin Coolidge’s 1925 presidential inaugural medal is a rarity in the series, with just 75 struck in bronze, two in silver and three in gold; a bronze example graded PCGS Specimen 63 sold for $11,400 in Baltimore at Stack’s Bowers’ Nov. 13 auction.

The cultural value of found coin treasure, and how finders can treat it, differs greatly between the United States with its 200+ years of history and the United Kingdom, where finds can predate the A.D. epoch.

The Central Bank of Cuba is commemorating the 500th anniversary of the city of Havana with a 2019 500-peso commemorative bank note.

Presidential inaugural medals like the profiled silver one for the March 4, 1921, inauguration of President Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge remain very popular with both numismatists and political history collectors.

A new 2019 1-ounce silver bullion coin from Niue celebrates the genius of Walt Disney and the 1940 movie “Fantasia.”

President Trump signed into law Nov. 25 H.R. 2423, the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act.

The 10th, and final, circulating commemorative coin from Peru’s Endangered Wildlife series has been released, this coin showing the Titicaca water frog.

Third-party grading services are being inundated with submissions containing combined thousands of 2019-W circulation quality America the Beautiful quarter dollars struck at the West Point Mint.

The first silver ingot from a series of four depicting World War II-era posters of America is now available.

Despite more than one bot group claiming victory in successfully overcoming the U.S. Mint’s Nov. 14 ordering restrictions for the 2019-S Enhanced Reverse Proof American Eagle silver dollar online, Mint officials deny those assertions.

Contents of Warren Buffett’s wallet, new discoveries of Washington quarter dollar doubled dies, and the history of America’s earliest medals for military valor are among topics found only in the digital and print editions of the Dec. 16 "Coin World."

Four residents of the United Kingdom have received prison sentences for failing to abide by UK law after they did not declare a discovery of a Viking Age hoard of some 300 coins and assorted jewelry.

The U.S. Mint has already sold all of its 2019 American Eagle half-ounce gold bullion coins, 30,000 pieces, the second lowest output in the 33-year history of the series.