Heritage’s recent FUN auctions in Orlando had a nice selection of Lincoln cents that show broad demand in this ongoing series, including this PCGS MS-66+ 1909-S Lincoln, V.D.B. cent, a perennial favorite from the initial year.

A Chinese icon, Liang Jun, the country’s first female tractor driver and the subject of the People’s Republic of China’s 1-yuan note from the 1960s to 1996, died at the age of 90 on Jan. 14.

Updated sales figures from the U.S. Mint for the Enhanced Reverse Proof 2019-S American Eagle silver dollar were posted on the Mint’s website Jan. 22. Sales of the coin were conducted Nov. 14.

The West Point Mint version of the first America the Beautiful quarter dollar of the new year, for American Samoa, will be the last of the special coins to be placed into circulation.

Columns exclusive to the digital and print editions of the Feb. 10 issue of “Coin World” cover such topics as 1875-S Seated Liberty dimes and a counterfeit of a key-date Mexican coin.

Two themes led last week’s most-read articles: 2020-W Jefferson 5-cent coins and America the Beautiful quarter dollars, and privy marks.

An engraved halfpenny created for a Moses Robus apparently circa 1776 is being offered at auction Feb. 1 in London.

Chief Numismatist at Witter Coin, Seth Chandler, discusses the opening of their new coin shop in San Francisco.

The Florida United Numismatists auctions held in the first weeks of January both replenish dealer inventories and serve as a gauge of the rare coin market. Top quality coins were in demand at the 2020 auctions.

Douglas F. Bird’s “secret” collection of early U.S. large cents — which showed the collector’s demand for quality — will highlight Ira & Larry Goldberg’s Feb. 16 Pre-Long Beach Auction.