Canceling the ANA 2020 Summer Seminar won't prevent the association's providing continuing education, as several of the Seminar's courses are offered free online.

Sales of the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame coins got underway June 4 with the coins available only online, and not through the U.S. Mint’s standard customer service telephone number.

With reduced competition for high-end Barber half dollars, solid values can be found at auction, as for this MS-66 1904-O example that brought $8,100 at the Dallas CSNS auction.

The interests of readers run the gamut, with topics from around the globe led by an interpretation of an Australian note that allegedly predicted the COVID-19 pandemic.

Beware of purchasing bullion through social media sites, as the Anti-Counterfeiting Educational Foundation is finding operations that are selling fakes.

Jeff and Chris interview Dan Carr, the owner and operator of the Moonlight Mint, a private mint in Colorado. They take the opportunity to discuss private mint products, read a listener email, and debut Jeff's numismatic one-man show.

A 1920 Assay Commission medal designed by George Morgan that realized $408 in Stack’s Bowers Galleries' March 18 auction features president Woodrow Wilson.

A top quality medal from the 1950s that features design work from Gilroy Roberts and Frank Gasparro realized $3,960 in a Stack's Bowers auction earlier this year.

After two months of inactivity due to global pandemic restrictions, the Royal Canadian Mint is back in production of numismatic coins, just in time to boost lagging sales.

Conspiracy theorists hail the Australian $10 note as positive proof that the COVID-19 global pandemic is a contrived hoax, but they completely misidentify the note's design elements.

The old saying, "The show must go on," may not have a numismatic origin, but it is at the heart of deliberations today by the promoters of coin shows and conventions.

The troubled Apollo 13 lunar mission has its own commemorative coin, a Proof .999 fine silver crown issued by Ascension Island, designed and developed by the Pobjoy Mint.

The reputation of one of the doctors selected for the newly designed 5,000-peso note from the Bank of Argentina sparked outrage with many who point to evidence the man was a Nazi sympathizer.

The Assay Commission is a thing of the past, but the medals issued during its existence from 1797 to 1977 have a lasting attraction, as results of a March Stack's Bowers sale show.

The Vatican City is the latest to offer a coin honoring the birth centennial of Pope John Paul II, after his native Poland issued three coins earlier in May.

The dedicated commitment to research exemplified by the late Eric P. Newman goes on with the annual award of grants to support original numismatic research.

The Bulgarian National Bank's latest release in its new series is the 10-lev denomination, issue dated 2020 with updated security features but design elements similar to previous 10-lev issues.

The "Dazzling Rarities Collection" heads the Stack's Bowers Galleries auction on June 18 and 19, featuring top quality 19th century Seated Liberty silver coins.

The month of June starts with the latest U.S. Mint offerings on sale with the release of bags and rolls of circulation-quality 2020 Kennedy half dollars.

ANA organizers are moving forward with plans to hold the annual World's Fair of Money despite uncertain conditions and no updated direction from government officials about public events.