Does this sound familiar? A mint offers a coin with novel features and an extremely low mintage, a formula that ensures a fast sellout and rising secondary market prices. It's not the story you think though.

The theme for the American Numismatic Association’s 97th Annual National Coin Week April 19 to 25 is “Remarkable Women: Catalysts of Change.”

The finest known 1855 Kellogg & Co. $50 pioneer gold coin has been sold in a private transaction for a reported $1 million by Seth Chandler, owner of Witter Coin Co. in San Francisco.

An 1893 gold £5 coin issued under Victoria graded Proof 65 Ultra Cameo by NGC sold for $72,000 in Heritage’s recent New York auction.

The Proof 2020-W Jefferson 5-cent coin planned as a premium for buyers of the 2020-S Proof set will be packaged better than the Proof 2019-W Lincoln cent to prevent damage to the coin, according to U.S. Mint officials.

An audience estimated at more than 500 people crowded into a tent outside the former Carson City Mint in Nevada Feb. 4 to mark the facility’s 150th anniversary.

Columns found only in the Feb. 24 issue of “Coin World” focus on the 1921-S Indian Head 5-cent coin, an 1837 Hard Times token, and merchant scrip notes, among other topics.

The most-read articles from the past week include a report about a possible fortune in gold aboard a 1909 shipwreck, our “Spotlight” on 1886 Indian Head cents, and a 1951-D Lincoln cent selling for $6,600.

A New Jersey man who pleaded guilty in June 2018 to federal charges of importing and selling counterfeit U.S. coins and precious metals bars has been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison.

Two brothers who defrauded some 150 customers of U.S. Coin Bullion LLC of more than $9.3 million have been sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay restitution.

New Jersey psychologist Dr. Nathan Sonnheim has been collecting United States coins since the age of 7. That was 74 years ago.

It still costs more than face value for the United States Mint to strike and distribute the Lincoln cent and Jefferson 5-cent coin into circulation.

Jeff and Chris interview Leonard Augsburger, the Project Coordinator of the Newman Numismatic Portal.

Coins of this issue aren't rare in a general sense, but the quality of this old-holdered NGC MS-68 1885-CC Morgan dollar challenges the finest-certified for the date (a PCGS MS-68+ example that sold for $135,125 in 2015).

GreatCollections’ auction of U.S. coins in early PCGS and NGC slabs, with coins like this 1875 Seated Liberty half dollar struck in copper, brought a lot of attention from bidders.

Bidders were excited about the fresh to the market coins in early PCGS holder at the Jan. 19 GreatCollections auction, where this PCGS MS-68 1905 Barber quarter dollar with a green CAC sticker smashed the record for the issue set in August by an MS-67 example.

After months of delay, the United Kingdom on Jan. 31 did what many have anticipated for several years — it issued a Brexit coin.

Recent numismatic literature focuses on the same era, the American Civil War, with one work examining the study of Confederate Treasury notes and another addressing the introduction of a new motto.

The U.S. Mint will begin offering the limited-edition Uncirculated 2020-P National Park of American Samoa 3-inch 5-ounce .999 fine silver quarter dollar on Feb. 6.

A collection of Disney Dollars was among the sets to win honors during Paper Money Guaranty’s 2019 set registry competition.