The Central States Numismatic Society will adopt a new schedule format, effective with its 74th Anniversary Convention scheduled for April 24-27, 2013, at the Schaumburg, Ill., Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center. Continue reading →

“Tradition Meets Innovation” was the theme at the 27th Mint Directors Conference, held May 7-8 in Vienna, Austria, and attendees had no shortage of opportunities to reflect on where this notion is impacting the coin industry. Continue reading →

I had been an active coin collector for more than 12 years when I attended my first local coin club meeting. That occasion was in the company of Chet Krause, some 49 years ago, just weeks after having joined the Numismatic News staff in early 1963 at the invitation of then editor Ed Rochette, who roughly three and a half years later moved on to a 40-plus year career of active immersion in the affairs of the American Numismatic Association. Continue reading →

The board of governors of the American Numismatic Association continued the process of finding a new executive director during the National Money Show May 10-12 in Denver. Continue reading →