Newly discovered 1867-S Half Eagle also shatters previous auction record in $10.665 million U.S. coins event; 1934 $10,000 ...

The British Royal Mint will cease producing coins for foreign countries at the end of 2024. What is now the British Royal Mint was founded in 886. In 1325, it began striking coins for a foreign entity ...

As digital payments gain ground, countries are reconsidering the importance of physical cash for financial security, privacy, ...

The Civil War brought two very different three-cent coins into circulation in 1865, leaving collectors with an intriguing ...

A growing form of fraud is putting precious metals dealers and their customers on alert as scammers persuade victims to buy ...

Some private gold coins failed because they contained too little gold. Today, that failure can make them exceptionally rare.

New products shake up the latest U.S. Mint sales report, led by strong initial numbers for the Donald J. Trump dollar.

The recently published book Madman’s Guide to Stamp Collecting by Robert Irwin may appear to have nothing to do with coin ...

Supergirl and Krypto soar into the U.S. Mint’s Comic Art series with new gold and silver issues celebrating the iconic DC ...

Scientists at DuPont with a reel of Tyvek. Unless noted, all photographs are courtesy of the author. Polymer bank notes are gradually replacing traditional paper notes. Made from a synthetic polymer, ...

In the pursuit of certain types of numismatic items, some social trends are fairly obvious; others not so much. The steady decline in the use of traveler’s checks has been going since the 1990s.

From the September 25, 2026, Numismatic News e-newsletter, readers share what makes exonumia and other forms of ...