An audience estimated at more than 500 people crowded into a tent outside the former Carson City Mint in Nevada Feb. 4 to mark the facility’s 150th anniversary.

Columns found only in the Feb. 24 issue of “Coin World” focus on the 1921-S Indian Head 5-cent coin, an 1837 Hard Times token, and merchant scrip notes, among other topics.

The most-read articles from the past week include a report about a possible fortune in gold aboard a 1909 shipwreck, our “Spotlight” on 1886 Indian Head cents, and a 1951-D Lincoln cent selling for $6,600.

A New Jersey man who pleaded guilty in June 2018 to federal charges of importing and selling counterfeit U.S. coins and precious metals bars has been sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison.

Two brothers who defrauded some 150 customers of U.S. Coin Bullion LLC of more than $9.3 million have been sentenced to federal prison and ordered to pay restitution.

New Jersey psychologist Dr. Nathan Sonnheim has been collecting United States coins since the age of 7. That was 74 years ago.

It still costs more than face value for the United States Mint to strike and distribute the Lincoln cent and Jefferson 5-cent coin into circulation.

Jeff and Chris interview Leonard Augsburger, the Project Coordinator of the Newman Numismatic Portal.

Coins of this issue aren't rare in a general sense, but the quality of this old-holdered NGC MS-68 1885-CC Morgan dollar challenges the finest-certified for the date (a PCGS MS-68+ example that sold for $135,125 in 2015).

GreatCollections’ auction of U.S. coins in early PCGS and NGC slabs, with coins like this 1875 Seated Liberty half dollar struck in copper, brought a lot of attention from bidders.