Citizen journalist Nick Shirley is the focus of a measure calling for a congressional gold medal for Shirley's acts of ...

The high cost of silver on the spot market has led the United States Mint to raise the prices on products made of the ...

The first issues of circulating coins as part of the nation's celebration of its 250th anniversary will be newly designed dimes, quarter dollars and half dollars.

The Wonders of Australia gold and silver coins feature an opal on the center of the reverse, drawing attention to what is ...

The first installment of a new trilogy of coins from the Monnaie de Paris is dedicated to the Genius of Liberty, commonly known as the Genius of the Bastille.

The Adams-Carter specimen of the Class III 1804 dollar was offered during the Heritage FUN Signature Auction and sold for $3.538 million with buyer's premium.

Fadeout and taper of the design rim is seen at both ends of a small curved clip in a 1972 Lincoln cent. Newcomers to the hobby often ask if their clips, or incomplete planchet coins, are genuine.

This 1889-O Morgan dollar was one of many that had its surfaces sandblasted to make it no longer desirable to a collector wanting to remove it from a Nevada casino. In the early 1960s, the owner of ...

The shekel was used as tribute money, as seen depicted in this fresco by Italian renaissance painter Masaccio in Florence. Few words have such long and complex histories, and have held such widespread ...

The right side of the obverse design rim of this 1976-D Washington quarter dollar shows a set of serrations that are the hallmark of collar clash. In numismatics the term “rim” is a nonspecific ...

40 percent silver planchets like the one on which this 1971-D Kennedy silver-copper clad half dollar was struck was last intentionally used at the Denver Mint in 1970 for Uncirculated Mint set strikes ...