A boost to coin collecting in 1857 and then an economic collapse, a payoff in a nine-year search for an error coin, and a question about mintages of private medals are the topics of some of the columns in the Sept. 23 issue of Coin World.

A key-date 1877 Indian Head cent in an older PCGS holder and graded MS-66 red led Heritage’s offering of The Castle Collection in Rosemont Aug. 14.

Most of this week’s “most-read” articles focused on circulating commemorative quarter dollars, with 2026 commemorative coinage plans and the production of Series 2017A notes also attracting attention.

Tom Caldwell, founder of Northeast Numismatics, discusses the changes in the coin business he has seen in over 50 years in the industry.

A fiery orange 1894/1894 Indian Head cent, a repunched date variety graded PCGS MS-66 red and bested by only one PCGS MS-66+ red example, sold for $30,000 on Aug. 14.

Vicken Yegparian, Vice President of Numismatics at Stack’s Bowers, shows us some of his favorite coins in the E. Horatio Morgan collection, including an 1894-S dime, which sold for over a million dollars at the recent ANA Convention in Rosemont, IL.

Two beautiful 1897 and 1898 Indian Head cents offered Aug. 15 from Pete Miller's ESM Collection, both graded PCGS Proof 67 red Cameo, CAC, realized $40,800 and $36,000 respectively.

Jeff and Chris interview Frank Noel, an expert on the 1783-1786 Nova Constellatio copper tokens.

Fabian Halbich of Kuenker shares the differences in auctions in Europe compared to the United States, and talks about how Kuenker has expanded from serving Germany to becoming an international auction house.

Research indicates no more than 100 1804 Capped Bust eagles survive, most softly struck like Taraszka’s MS-61 example, described as “Very pleasing for the assigned grade," which realized $102,000 in the ANA Stack’s Bowers auction of his collection Aug. 15.

The latest BEP production report, the first published in months, reveals that the BEP has begun printing Series 2017A notes, the suffix “A” representing a minor change in the production process.

Collectors have been searching for the 2019-W America the Beautiful quarter dollars since the first of April, and some have had luck finding some of them. For other collectors, the main feeling is frustration.

The last issue of the £1,000 Bank of England bank note, dated Nov. 20, 1936, will be the centerpiece of Dix Noonan Webb’s 631-lot auction of British and Irish currency Sept. 12 in London.

At $14,400, an AU-50 early die state Taraszka 19 1799 Capped Bust, Heraldic Eagle, Small Obverse Stars eagle was one of the least expensive of the 41 coins from the Anthony J. Taraszka Collection.

Very few countries have notes without portraits, but Gambia has become the second country in Africa to drop them from its notes after the president formerly depicted was voted out of officer and exiled.

Silvano DiGenova, founder of Tangible Investments, Inc., discusses his favorite coin he’s ever handled and which he would love to handle, but hasn’t yet. He also talks about what he would change to help the coin collecting hobby if he could go back in time.

Ordering for bags and rolls of circulation-quality 2019 American Innovation, Delaware $1 coins from the Philadelphia and Denver Mints' production opens Sept. 19.

An unknown number of 2019 San Antonio Missions National Historical Park quarter dollars, including some 2019-W coins, were released into circulation before their intended Aug. 26 target date.

Every weekly and monthly issue of Coin World has content exclusive to the print and digital editions, including columns and features. Here is a preview of three of those exclusive articles in the Sept. 16 issue.

Our most-read articles of the past week included those about multiple proposed commemorative coin programs, both circulating and noncirculating.