Our most-read articles of the past week included a report about 2020-W 5-cent coins, more about our top stories of 2019, and price increases by the U.S. Mint.

Author and collector Winston Zach join Chris and Jeff to discuss his new book, Bad Metal, Copper & Nickel, which reviews the landscape for contemporary counterfeit United States coins, and presents a look at those issues in copper and nickel.

Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History announced the theft of numismatic items from a museum at the Fort of Guadalupe, site of an important battle in 1862 where Mexicans achieved a victory that is celebrated every May 5.

Critics are asking whether Bank of England polymer notes are holding up as well in circulation as expected.

A year ago, we offered four predictions for 2019. Now it’s time to see how accurate we were in “predicting” the future.

An array of Thailand’s famous "bullet money,' including several lots from the Charles Opitz Collection, was offered during Heritage Auctions’ Dec. 5 and 6 auction in Hong Kong.

Stack’s Bowers Galleries offered the E. Horatio Morgan Collection at its Nov. 15, 2019, Whitman Expo auctions, a collection that included 546 of the 558 known die marriages for all half dollars from 1794 through 1836.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s three currency-issuing banks will introduce new $20 and $50 notes on Jan. 14, in time for the Lunar New Year celebrations Jan. 25.

One of the top stories of 2019 involved a major change to tradition for U.S. silver coinage, while another featured an announcement that excited collectors.

Three 2020 annual sets sold by the U.S. Mint — the Proof set, Silver Proof set and Uncirculated Coin set — will be accompanied by a 2020-W Jefferson 5-cent coin with one of three different finishes.