The Proof 5-ounce version of the U.S. Mint's innovative silver dollar created for 2019, for the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing by the Apollo 11 mission, wins voting for the Coin of the Year.

In connection with the auctions scheduled March 11 and 12, Kagin's is providing three free educational sessions to allow collectors to get better insight into featured lots from the sale.

Collectors found the unusually colorful toning on a VF-35 1795 Flowing Hair half dime appealing at a January Heritage auction, where the coin realized $3,840.

An Irish £10 note from the famous Ploughman series and a set of die proofs from Guernsey were among lots bringing higher than expected returns in the Feb. 24 Dix Noonan Webb sale.

Raise a glass to the 2021 brass €2.5 coin from Belgium celebrating the UNESCO decision five years ago decreeing the nation's "beer culture" an "intangible heritage."

The U.S. Mint let some bulk purchasers buy thousands of Proof 2021-W American Eagles and pick them up three days before the coins went on sale to collectors with a 99-coin household limit.

The 2021 Texas Numismatic Association show medal features Apache leader Geronimo in bronze and silver versions, available to order ahead of the organization's planned June show in Arlington.

A triple-struck 2015 Australian dollar in a late March sale, while not an extreme rarity, is eyecatching because in modern minting processes such errors don't often reach circulation.

Coins again available from the Pogue Collection will return to auction in Stack's Bowers Galleries' Rarities Night sale in Las Vegas, including several finest known or only collectible examples.

Digital money is of high interest to Federal Reserve officials, who are exploring "significant technical and policy questions" and "preconditions for a general-purpose central bank digital currency."