The Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee has several decisions to make at their meeting June 23, with designs for medals and coins awaiting review.

The American Eagle series, with news about privy marks, low mintage figures and the wide variety of 2020 issues, dominated reader attention and will likely remain a hot topic.

Heritage offers June 15 more than 100 examples of small-denomination, private-issue gold coins, known as fractional gold, that arose from the challenge of finding small change in California's Gold Rush era.

Two years ago, about ready to give up for the day, a metal detectorist chanced upon a rare silver penny; it sold in April to a UK collector for far beyond its estimated price.

Playtime during COVID-19 isolation led two young boys in France to a discovery that will be sold at auction in June and could bring the family a swimming pool.

The Royal Canadian Numismatic Association has canceled the 2020 convention planned for Halifax, but will still issue the 2020 medal, with quantity based on demand.

Jeff and Chris interview Jeff Shevlin, an expert on "so-called dollars," an important category of American exonumia. The two also investigate Federal Reserve Notes with some strange connections to the Kennedy Assassination, while Chris changes things up by asking Jeff the trivia question.

New $10 and $20 notes begin circulating in Zimbabwean currency in May and June, with updated security features, though the printer of the bills remains a mystery.

The Mint will issue a Proof 2020-W End of World War II 75th Anniversary American Eagle silver dollar, the sixth for the series this year. Is the Mint issuing too many in the series?

A trio of coins will serve to mark the centennial of the birth of the first man born in Poland to rise to the rank of Pope within the Catholic Church. Coins will be gold and silver.

Japan's 10,000-yen note set for 2024 will be printed on paper made from mitsumata bark, 90 percent of which is imported, renewing interest from Japan's farmers in growing the shrub.

An MS-65 1921-S 5-cent coin with a major obverse die break sold for $6,756.25 in May, below Legend's estimate but above the $5,640 a similarly graded example brought in April.

Profits from the sale of a new 1-ounce silver coin from St. Helena will be given to Britain's National Health Service in recognition of the health heroes fighting the global pandemic.

Some of the finest Asian notes on the market were in a recent Stack's Bowers Hong Kong auction; one note of the Ta-Ching Government Bank from 1910 sold for triple its estimate.

A surprising price for a 1941-S dime, commentary on the mintage for a special gold American Eagle and news about arrests in a counterfeiting ring drew reader interest.

Six different American Eagles in silver will originate in three different places during 2020 with the release date of some of those offerings still to be decided by the Mint.

The latest announcement of U.S. Mint-produced items of numismatic interest is a three-coin set of 2020 Weir Farm National Historic Site quarter dollars with no limits and no release date.

The virus responsible for COVID-19 is making its first appearance struck on coins, on four colorized collectible legal tender .999 fine silver 5,000-franc CFA coins from the African nation of Chad.

A Proof 2020-W End of World War II 75th Anniversary American Eagle silver dollar with a mintage limit of 75,000 coins, and a household-order limit of one coin, is planned by the U.S. Mint.

The key date PCGS MS-64+ 1918/7-D Indian Head 5-cent coin in Legend's May 14 Recency 38 auction is a rare high-grade survivor and topped its estimate, selling at $99,875.