Monthly Archives: April 2017

The United States Mint didn't publish numismatic sales figures last week, directing resources instead toward its redesigned website.

Its latest report includes two weeks of sales, plus first showings for the 2017-S Congratulations Set, the 2017-W $100 American Liberty High Relief Gold Coin, quarters celebrating the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in the District of Columbia, and an uncirculated set of all the quarters for this year [...]

A valuable 19th century U.S. gold coin featuring one of the earliest uses of the motto, In God We Trust, will help an Indiana congregation fulfill its dreams of having its own church building and avoid missing a crucial financial deadline for the project. The gold piece could realize $300,000 or more when offered by Heritage Auctions.

The coin survived an attempted theft at the donor's home four years ago, and recently was given to the GracePoint Church in Valparaiso where Pastor Ben Lamb described it as "an incredible gift in God's story" [...]

Stack's Bowers and Ponterio's April 2017 Hong Kong auction of coins and paper money realized more than $5.8 million, the company announced Tuesday, April 18.

Session A offering world paper money started with a bang as the opening lot, a mid-grade condition Ming Dynasty 1 Kuan, realized above the high estimate [...]

Swirling maple leaves adorn a new, large-sized coin from the Royal Canadian Mint. Not only does the coin feature a unique curved or dome shape, it is struck in 5 ounces of 99.99% pure silver to a mirror-like proof finish.

Limited to 2,000 with 75% already sold, the moving maple leaves design is depicted on the coin's convex reverse while a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II appears on the coin's concave obverse [...]

On May 1, the United States Mint will open a public contest to design curved Apollo 11 Commemorative Coins.

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the first manned landing on the Moon, the U.S. Mint in 2019 will produce and issue $5 gold coins, silver dollars, clad half-dollars, and 5 ounce $1 silver coins.

The collection of coins will share the same obverse (heads) and reverse (tails) designs, and will be curved in shape similar to the 2014 National Baseball Hall of Fame Baseball Coins [...]

On Tuesday, April 4, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) opened sales of its 2017 Intaglio Print Subscription Program, "Constitution Series." It also started selling the first print from the program.

This year's BEP series recognizes the U.S. Constitution with three prints titled Legislative, Executive, and Judicial [...]