"Bullion Book: Silver Coins for Collectors and Investors," by Sebastian Wieschowski, is a good new reference on world silver coins.

Some auctions deserve to be ignored. Check out four important points Michael Bugeja looks for before doing business with an online auctioneer.

Supposed 1804 dollars show up in unlikely places. In 1913, dealer B. Max Mehl featured a phony 1804 dollar on the H.O. Granberg Collection sale catalog cover.

Unless some options for variation are explored, sales of American Eagle silver dollars will likely continue to trend downward.

New law in Germany could have major effect on coin collecting

Sobek is the latest design by Heidi Wastweet in the Egyptian God series of 2-ounce silver rounds minted by Sunshine Minting and distributed by Provident Metals.

One of the rarest silver dollars is known as much for what was done to it as for what it is.

Original 1950 to 1955 Proof sets, packaged in cellophane and boxes, often sport vivid toning. Beware of tampering.

Read posts and hear the voices of Coin World editors on a variety of numismatic topics related to coin and paper money collecting.

Proliferation of U.S. counterfeit coins has been largely ignored for too long by the facets of the federal government that have the clout to tackle the problem.