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 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 ...

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 ...

Legislation introduced in the House and Senate calls for the elimination of the Federal Reserve system that has been in place in the government since 1913. Kentucky Representative Thomas Massie and ...

This 1941-D Lincoln cent shows an improper alloy mix error. The lighter streaks are enriched in zinc, tin, or both. Freshly minted coins are sometimes adorned by ...

Florence as it looked in the mid-16th century is portrayed in a woodcut by Jacob Clauser, printed in Basel, Germany, about 1547 to 1550. Editor's note: The following is the second post in Coin World's ...