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The two-pound coin from the Royal Mint features imagery from Wells's books. But fans noted that the writer's Martian tripods have three legs, not four. The idea was to create [...]

LEAD: THE 1980's have witnessed a renaissance in United States commemorative coinage. Eleven new commemoratives have been issued since 1982, when the series resumed after a hiatus of nearly three […]

The 50-pence pieces emblazoned with ''Oct. 31, 2019'' will be recycled. (So will those with ''March 29.'') LONDON -- When Prime Minister Boris Johnson pledged that Britain would leave the [...]

WASHINGTON -- Since Bill Clinton occupied the White House, the commemorative medallions known as challenge coins have been stately symbols of the presidency coveted by the military, law enforcement personnel [...]

WASHINGTON -- Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, has proposed a redesign of the agency's commemorative coin, an adaptation of longstanding ''challenge coins'' exchanged among American troops. [...]

When Scott Pruitt wanted to refashion the Environmental Protection Agency's ''challenge coin'' -- a type of souvenir medallion with military origins that has become a status symbol among civilians -- [...]

The United States Mint will release a commemorative gold coin in April that will feature Lady Liberty as a black woman, marking the first time that she has been depicted [...]

When we last wrote about National Collector's Mint, in 2004, the company was in trouble with New York's attorney general for selling Sept. 11 commemorative coins that it claimed were [...]

ROME -- It seems absurd that any official Vatican memorabilia would misspell the name Jesus. Or that the Italian institute that mints coins, passports and postage stamps would make such [...]

WASHINGTON -- A bizarre but seemingly legal idea to get around the country's debt ceiling using a trillion-dollar coin is having its day in Washington. The proposal, which originated in [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- Who owns 10 exceedingly rare American gold coins from 1933? Is it the family of a local gold dealer who died 21 years ago? Or is it the [...]

The United States Mint has rejected three designs for a commemorative District of Columbia quarter because they include the slogan 'Taxation Without Representation.' The Mint said the slogan was too […]

Americans who are unsure where the Northern Mariana Islands lie, or just what Guam is famous for, may find answers in their pocket change by the end of 2009. Among […]

The studio behind a coming summer movie, 'Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,' has roused the ire of the United States Mint with its promotional gimmick for the film, […]

A company in Port Chester that sold coins emblazoned with the World Trade Center towers engaged in false advertising, a State Supreme Court judge in Albany ruled yesterday. Justice Joseph […]

New York's attorney general, Eliot Spitzer, said yesterday that he had obtained a court order halting the sale of a Sept. 11 memorial silver dollar because of what he said […]

THE days of Avram C. Freedberg as a distributor of pornography are well behind him. No longer is he involved with such businesses as the exquisitely alliterative Dirty Dick's Dynamite […]

Opportunists have never stopped crawling over the rubble of Sept. 11, looking to make a buck. Small-time vendors, incapable of shame, began selling T-shirts even before the dust cleared. Other, […]

The United States Mint advised consumers that a widely advertised coin commemorating the World Trade Center was not a genuine United States coin. National Collectors Mint Inc. has been marketing […]

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveiled the design of the California quarter, which shows the conservationist John Muir, a California condor and Yosemite National Park's Half Dome mountain on the coin's tails […]

The Italian and Vatican police created a human chain to hold back thousands of people as they pushed at the Vatican's gates to buy limited-edition coins celebrating the 25th year […]