Proof American Eagle platinum $100 coins from 2021 to 2025 will feature five different obverse designs depicting First Amendment freedoms with oak symbolism, opposite a common reverse.

Upcoming sales of 2021 products from the U.S. Mint dominated the attention of readers while attention was also directed toward precious metal products and prospective pandemic relief.

A comprehensive work about the Carson City Mint and its products, "The Confident Carson City Coin Collector," is available from Rusty Goe, award-winning author and authority on the subject.

Jeff and Larry discuss the coin toss from the big game, answer some readers questions and talk coin show etiquette.

The European Central Bank said euro bank note counterfeiting was at a historically low level in 2020 with 460,000 counterfeit euro bank notes withdrawn in 2020, a reduction of 17.7% from 2019.

The numismatic community has survived the first year of the pandemic, though not without some challenges. The question remains: When will "normal" times resume for the hobby?

The highest graded coins tend to grab the headlines and open wide the wallets of collectors, but many lower graded coins also hold appeal. Prices for some at a recent sale reflected that charm.

Syria issued the 5,000-pound note in January to replace worn lower denomination notes, as its exchange rate has gone from 47 Syrian pounds per dollar in 2011 to 512 pounds per dollar now.

The Paramount Collection set for mid-February auction stars quality gold coins, including a 1907 Saint-Gaudens, Ultra High Relief double eagle and an 1880 Coiled Hair $4 Stella, each expected to break $1 million.

More details are revealed about construction plans for a Bureau of Engraving and Printing plant in suburban Maryland, which might open by 2025, with full operation expected by 2029.

Production restrictions in effect at the Philadelphia and San Francisco mints could have a profound impact on the mintage figures for the 2021 American Eagle silver bullion coins with the current designs.

Readers this week were watching for Mint product releases, including the rescheduled Proof 2021-W American Eagle silver dollar release date, and any fresh news on the silver dollar centennial program.

An explosion in market demand for silver at the close of January forced some major retailers in the precious metal to suspend sales amid concerns they would be unable to fill orders.

Sales begin for the three-coin set of the last quarter dollar in the America the Beautiful series at the U.S. Mint's website on Feb. 19, featuring two different finishes and three different Mints.

Four men with various specialties in monuments, statuary, architecture and landscape, were appointed to four-year terms on the Commission of Fine Arts by President Donald Trump the day before his term ended.

More commonly found on Capped Bust half dollars, a Houck’s Panacea counterstamp on a 1795 Flowing Hair dollar is the only one known and realized $9,600 in a Jan. 3 online sale of Partrick's counterstamped coins.

Three individuals are sentenced for their roles in a note counterfeiting scheme in the UK where more than £12 million worth of counterfeit bank notes were seized, possibly the most in a single operation.

While commemorative glow-in-the-dark coins aren't new, Barbados 2020 $1 coins minted by the RCM go a step further, with a million of them issued for general circulation and collecting.

Counterstamped coins can provide a low-cost history lesson, as some examples with unidentified issuers are ripe for research, like these 1801 and 1802 large cents recently sold for less than $100 each.

Many know of the ship "Admiral Gardner," but the man by that name also ran a political campaign in the late 1700s, and for his cause a penny-sized token was issued. An example is offered Feb. 17 by Baldwin's.