Auction companies adapted to cancellation of the 2020 World's Fair of Money, relocating their planned auctions, and buyers showed high interest in outstanding gold coins and large cents.

Proof strikings of the Roanoke Colonization 350th anniversary commemorative half dollar are unrecorded; this example merits the NGC Specimen 67 status and sold for $43,200 Aug. 4.

Collectors in Nevada and Arkansas were each the first to submit a 2020-W Salt River Bay quarter dollar to PCGS, the latest winners in the second year of the Quarter Quest.

Cents take center stage again on the Coin World Podcast as Jeff and Chris interview Chuck Daughtrey, owner of coppercoins.com and the founder of the Cent Project, an initiative dedicated to cataloging the number of cents in circulation and identifying varieties. They also talk about the release of Heads Up: Will We Stop Making Cents?

A 1922 Grant Memorial commemorative half dollar can be found in two different versions, but the one with the star is most desired, especially when it's a Specimen strike.

An iconic scene from the beloved "The Lion King" is captured on silver and gold Niue bullion coins, with silver coins now available and gold coins to be delivered by early September.

A unique set of 18 large-size Series 1914 and 1918 Federal Reserve note proofs compiled by Alfred Grinnell was a prize in Heritage Auctions' Signature Sale Aug. 3, realizing $504,000.

Online resources are making numismatic research easier than ever, making traditional libraries a little less relevant than in the past, at least at on some levels.

The Royal Mint will be issuing £5 coins in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the end of WWII, following up on previous VE Day commemoratives.

A Panama 1941 5-balboa note was the top selling paper money lot, with other world notes also doing well, at Stack's Bowers Galleries' auction in Las Vegas, subbing for the canceled ANA show.

New designs were released as Trinidad and Tobago will be bringing out additional polymer notes which will utilize distinctive coloring to identify denominations.

While modern precious metals make headlines with prices, Byzantine gold coins add value in not just metal content, but the historic content today's coins can't match.

Two gold End of World War II 75th Anniversary coins have differing compositions, and price adjustments are likey for precious metals numismatic coins as metals prices advance.

Commemorative half dollars were among stars of the recent Heritage Auctions Platinum Night, and a unique offering from the 1930s stood out as a pristine example of quality striking.

Buyers of the Basketball Hall of Fame Kids sets are being pleasantly surprised by the early delivery of packages not expected until September tat has reportedly been delivered as early as Aug. 11.

The company under contract with the United States Mint to colorize the Basketball commemorative coins is no longer a mystery: a Massachusetts firm is identified.

There are no more Enhanced Reverse Proof 2019-S silver dollars left in the U.S. Mint's inventory as the latest sale lasted only 10 seconds when offered in the most recent sale.

In our top stories, readers watched a video announcement by the U.S. Mint about the coin shortage and also found interest in a sellout of the Enhanced Reverse Proof 2019-S American Eagle.

The United States Mint will offer the last of the Enhanced Reverse Proof 2019-S American Eagle silver dollars at noon ET on Aug. 12. Fewer than 100 are available.

Chris flies solo this week, interviewing Robert Wright, a financial historian and author of One Nation, Under Debt, Corporation Nation, and The Genealogy of American Finance. Their discussion centers on Revolutionary War finance.