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I have spent years collecting coins, in the 1980s the mint offered a few special collector sets, in 1982 the mint made the first silver half dollar in almost 20 [...]

Though it is not his actual name, 'Emmett' is a very real person. At 96 years 'young,' he has led a life so full of adventure that, when he wrote [...]

ERIC LI CHEUNG is in the money. The 13-year-old New York City is the wonder kid of coin collecting. He's the youngest member ever of the Numismatic Literary Guild, a […]

National Collector's Mint is under fire once again for marketing a coin to profit off the Sept. 11 attacks. An e-mail went out yesterday pitching the 'Fifth Anniversary World Trade [...]

With antiques, art and stamp collections becoming potential pension investments from next April, Standard Life marketing technical manager John Lawson assesses the possibilities for IFAs to get involved in this […]

WASHINGTON, D.C -- A one-of-a-kind U.S. Treasury gold proof coin has been accidentally discovered within the vaults of the Smithsonian Institution. This 1854-S gold Double Eagle $20 coin was struck [...]

Collectors of the new American buffalo commemorative silver dollars were cautioned by The U.S. Mint to make sure they bought the real thing. Replicas of the silver dollars have been [...]

The Vermont quarter was the latest coin to be released for the U.S. Mint's 50 State Quarters Program. The coin features a silhouette of Camel's Hump Mountain, with maple trees [...]

Fred Weinberg; of Los Angeles, is one guy who can't lose a coin toss as long as he picks tails. The 51-year-old coin collector and dealer has a rare twotailed [...]

An Edina-based company that makes collectible coin-holding boards is suing to protect its trademarked product. New York Mint filed suit in U.S. District Court earlier this month against Indiana-based BP [...]

When Frank Wallis of Mountain Home, Arkansas, flips one coin, it is a quarter if it lands on heads and a dollar if it comes up tails. The gold-colored coin […]

WASHINGTON - Two House committees have scheduled hearings this spring to examine the Gold Dollar coin program. U.S. Mint Director Philip N. Diehl is scheduled to testify March 28 before [...]

Gather some old, brown pennies from around the house -- the older, the better (but make SURE they are not part of a collection or being saved especially for some […]

Quick, check your change. Does it look any different? Two bits says it does. The quarter is in a new state. In fact, states are what you'll find on the [...]

Budget-minded hobbyists who try to build complete date and Mint mark sets of various U.S. coin series often have their efforts sabotaged because of high-priced key dates. Perhaps a different [...]

Steven Contursi, President of Rare Coin Wholesalers in Dana Point, California has a passion for collecting wines and coins with a record of up to 2,400 wines that he began collecting since 1981. He keeps his wines in an 80-square-foot-cellar that he built onto the family room of his house in Laguna Beach, California.

Hartzog has more than 100,000 pieces in his personal collection of exonumia, coin-like objects such as medals and tokens. He includes even non-coin items such as badges, dog tags, buttons and other similar items in his definition. His childhood discovery of an 1865 Indian cent in the dirt inspired his collection.

The Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon sent jittery investors scurrying to tangible investments like gold and silver. The same impulse drove some investors to [...]