New gold coins from St. Helena, including the 1-ounce £5 piece shown, provide a modern interpretation of the classic Una and the Lion design.

British coinage takes center stage on this week’s Coin World Podcast as Jeff and Chris interview Dominic Chorney, an expert in medieval British coins.

A new circulating commemorative coin in Poland honors a memorial to an effort made to establish a Polish nation a century ago.

A “ready”-made collection of electrotypes is being offered in a Nov. 21 auction in London.

A Reverse Proof 2019 silver $2 coin from the Solomon Islands not only honors the bald eagle, but is shaped like one of the famous birds.

Exceptionally rare notes, an 1863 legal tender $50 note and an 1865 $500 interest-baring note, will be auctioned in the Stack’s Bowers Galleries U.S. currency auction in Baltimore Nov. 14.

A century ago, collectors were worried about the seizure of obsolete bank notes and the possibility that their collections were at risk of confiscation.

The second 50-penny coin from the Royal Mint celebrating the children’s book The Gruffalo has now been released.

The U.S. Mint still has more than half of the maximum authorization of 30,000 Reverse Proof 2019-W American Eagle palladium $25 coins before the program sells out.

U.S. Mint officials anticipate an early sellout of the 30,000 Enhanced Reverse Proof 2019-S American Eagle silver dollars that go on sale at noon Eastern Time Nov. 14.

A recently discovered example of a rare “mule” of a 1916 Australian halfpenny with an quarter-anna of India was sold in a private sale in Australia.

Bulgaria is issuing a new 50-lev note that will have features to help visually impaired people conduct transactions and a portrait of the writer Slaveykov.

Rather than subject 183,781 unsold Proof 2016-W American Eagle silver dollars to the standard “de-trashing” protocol, the U.S. Mint recently sold the coins at discount by sealed bid to bulk buyers.

Alexander the III of Macedon (the Great) was a historic figure in the early Greek world. For collectors beginning an exploration of ancient coins, his numismatic legacy is a popular starting point.

An 1850 Coronet double eagle graded MS-64 realized $199,750 in Legend Rare Coin Auctions’ Exclusively Legend auction in October.

Sequential off-center strikes, Hawaii sugar cane plantation tokens and early issues of “The Numismatist” are the subjects of some of the columns exclusive to the Nov. 18 issue of “Coin World.”

Readers made articles about upcoming changes to the quarter dollar, an early overdate half dollar and an American diversity design for the American Liberty series the most-read stories of the past week.

The U.S. Mint’s former order fulfillment contractor, Pitney Bowes Government Solutions, mistakenly arranged for the incineration, without metal reclamation, of more than $1 million worth of First Spouse gold $10 coins.

With proposed legislation seeking commemorative Morgan and Peace silver dollars for 2021 languishing in Congress, the U.S. Mint is looking at a possible alternative: a 2021-CC Morgan gold dollar.

An extensive collection of Washingtoniana from the Historical Society of Pennsylvania assembled by famed 19th century numismatist William Spohn Baker will close out Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ auctions at the Whitman Baltimore Expo on Nov. 16.