Any Mint State 1884-S dollar is a prize, and this MS-60 example, the Heritage cataloger noted, is a "well-struck and brilliant semi-key" with "few obtrusive abrasions for the grade."

Jeff and Chris sit down with Jeffry Frieden, a Professor of Government at Harvard to discuss his work on the politics of currency exchange rate policies.

When the purported 19th known example of the (2000)-P State quarter dollar-Sacagawea dollar mule is auctioned by Heritage Auctions at the Long Beach Expo in September, New Mexico collector Tommy Bolack will be in the heat of the bidding.

A 2019 silver $1 coin and a gold $100 coin, both depicting Queen Anne’s Revenge, captained by the pirate Blackbeard, are available from Tuvalu.

An extraordinary group of encased postage stamps, the personal reference collection assembled by Q. David Bowers, was auctioned by Stack’s Bowers Galleries on Aug. 13 in the first of the firm’s ANA convention auction sessions.

U.S. Mint officials are considering a proposal to redesign the obverse and reverse of all circulating coins in 2026 to celebrate the Semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence.

Rainer Opitz’s collection of numismatic items related to the Reformation has been published into a six-volume book by Fritz Rudolph Künker.

A pair of parody notes take aim at Brexit and new United Kingdom leaders Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson, the latter the prime minister.

Some exceptional Morgan dollars will be offered at Heritage’s Sept. 5 Premier Session at its Long Beach auctions from the collection of James Shucart.

A note previously unknown, even to specialists, a British India 1,000-rupee issue from Jan. 27, 1925, was certified and graded Very Fine 25 by Paper Money Guaranty.

Collectors now know what the 2019 American Innovation $1 coins will look like, after final designs were revealed Aug. 14 at the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money in Rosemont, Illinois.

The U.S. Mint is proposing that the obverse and reverse of all circulating coins be redesigned in 2026 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the nation’s birth.

Approved designs for the final six coins in the 56-coin America the Beautiful Quarters Program were unveiled Aug. 13 in Rosemont, Illinois, at the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money.

Dix Noonan Webb will offer a June metal detectorist's find of a lifetime, a Roman gold solidus of the Emperor Constantine I in About Uncirculated condition, at auction Sept. 17 in London.

Among our most-read articles of the past week were plans for a 2019 American Eagle palladium coin, U.S. Mint holiday ornaments, and discovery of a gaming token mule from the Vietnam War era.

This particularly unscathed 1937 Battle of Antietam commemorative half dollar graded PCGS MS-68 CAC with attractive “tab toning” from its original paper mailer brought $7,200 in Heritage’s Summer FUN auction in July.

The Professional Numismatists Guild presented its major awards at the ANA World's Fair of Money in Rosemont, Illinois, on Aug. 12.

The 1793 Liberty Cap, Left half cent is a one-year type, the first of the denomination struck for circulation, and early copper collectors often expect and forgive planchet defects.

The 2019-P American Liberty, High Relief silver medal will depart from the 2017 and 2018 editions in one weighty way — each .999 fine silver medal will weigh 2.5 ounces, contrasted with the 1-ounce versions offered earlier.

A new die pairing has been discovered for a 1968 gaming token used in slot machines by U.S. servicepeople during the Vietnam War.