After an absence since 2013, the PNG Day will be held in conjunction with the Central States Numismatic Society convention in April at the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg.

The Fédération Internationale de la Médaille d’Art congress and exhibition planned for Tokyo, postponed from its original October 2020 date, is reset for December 2021.

After a successful online event in August of 2020, organizers are collecting presenters for another virtual installment of the three-day Newman Numismatic Portal Symposium, set for March 20 through 21.

Size and color can be the tipoff that a coin was struck erroneously on an incorrect planchet, and these pieces are often highly desirable because the error is easily understood.

A late January Ira and Larry Goldberg auction offers a newly discovered 1857-O gold $20 double eagle that emerged from San Juan, Puerto Rico, and is now graded PCGS MS-61 prooflike, certified by CAC.

Jeff and Larry recount the weekend experiences of getting back to buying coins in person and attending events. There’s a dive back to 1973, the Carson City GSA sale, a tribute to Alex Trebek and outrage expressed in the letters.

Coins of the English Civil War are historic and collectible, with one interesting example an AU-58 1645 silver shilling of Carlisle, England, in the Feb. 2 and 3 Ira & Larry Goldberg Pre-Long Beach auction.

Legislation seeks to supplement the law that created a congressional gold medal for Merchant Mariners of WWII, to fund purchase and distribution of bronze duplicates for eligible WWII service personnel.

2021 gold $100 and silver $1 coins in the Australia at Night series for Niue use selective plating and finishing techniques to feature the wombat, a native marsupial that is critically endangered.

A Spink auction on behalf of the Bank of England raised $330,000 for donation to two charities, Pancreatic Cancer UK and YoungMinds, with a sheet of 45 £20 notes drawing the highest bid, £15,000.