We have begun our annual recap of the past year, looking at what we consider the Top 10 Stories of 2019.

An early example of the Joachimstaler silver coin (that would influence the word dollar) appears in a Jan. 30 Fritz Rudolph Künker auction in Berlin.

Collectors planning to buy the standard 10-coin 2020-S Proof set when it goes on sale Feb. 27 from the U.S. Mint will be paying $4.05 more than they did for the 2019-S set.

A ringed-bimetallic 20-piso coin has been issued in the Philippines to replace a bank note of the same denomination.

The Central Bank of Myanmar introduced a 1,000-kyat note on Jan. 4, featuring Bogyoke Aung San, founder of the nation.

At least one option of the 2019 Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Program was a hit with collectors, with the 2019 Apollo 11 Half Dollar Special set being the most popular of the numismatic products offered.

A handsome 1915-S Indian Head 5-cent piece graded MS-67 with a green CAC sticker is one of four like-graded examples at PCGS with none finer. It sold for $55,812.50 on Dec. 12, 2019.

The Andrew Jackson Presidential silver medal, which will be issued by the U.S. Mint Feb. 24 as part of its ongoing series, will be priced 15 percent higher than the four Presidential silver medals issued in 2019.

Columns exclusive to the Jan. 20 issue of “Coin World” focus on such themes as “another” 1955 Lincoln, Doubled Die cent and a mystery raised about the Libertas Americana medal because of a book published 211 years ago.

We begin our look back at 2019 and the top 10 stories of the year with four special U.S. Mint coin programs, each offering one or more distinctive coins.

A preview of a column about a counterfeit gold coin, news that George H.W. Bush might get a Presidential dollar and a look at the U.S. Mint in 2020 made our most-read list this past week.

Chris and Jeff celebrate the 40th episode of the podcast with a look at numismatic and Coin World history. Chris also concludes his interview with David Fanning.

Joseph M. Segel, founder of The Franklin Mint in the 1960s and QVC cable television marketing enterprise in the 1980s, died Dec. 21 in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, at age 88.

One highlight of Wacks collection is a Roman coin issued circa A.D. 97 and long thought to commemorate a Jewish head tax repeal by the emperor. Recent scholarship suggests a different reading intended by the inscription.

Individual bags, rolls and boxes of circulation-quality 2020 Native American dollars struck at the Denver and Philadelphia Mints will be offered by the U.S. Mint beginning at noon Eastern Time Feb. 12.

Trinidad and Tobago continues its newest bank note series with a $100 note made of polymer and featuring new technology.

As we close out the eventful year that was 2019, it is time to start thinking about 2020 and what might happen in the coin collecting community.

The Bank of Ghana introduced 100- and 200-cedi bank notes, worth $18 and $36, on Dec. 2, continuing a series that began with smaller denominations.

The first American Eagle silver dollar that collectors will be able to obtain from the U.S. Mint in 2020 will be the standard Proof 2020-W dollar on Jan. 9.

GreatCollections will be offering a time capsule of sorts of early slabs from the first years of PCGS in its Jan. 19 auction of “The Ultimate Collection of Rattlers and Old Holders.”