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Dec 10, 2023 | 
coinworld.com | William T. Gibbs
This is my final Editorial written as managing editor. Editorial Director Larry Jewett assumes my duties starting with the 2024-dated issues, adding to the managerial responsibilities he has held for some time as we transitioned to my retirement at the end of 2023. It has been an amazing 47 years, with my dream job. I was in late high school and early college when I began working toward a career in journalism.
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Dec 3, 2023 | 
coinworld.com | William T. Gibbs
Three news articles this week — our coverage of the 2024 Harriet Tubman Bicentennial coinage first strike ceremony and the approval of designs for the 2025 Native American dollar recognizing Mary Kawena Pukui and the portrayal of Raye Jean Montague on a 2025 American Innovations dollar — illustrate how far this country’s coinage has come in honoring long-neglected segments of American society.
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Nov 26, 2023 | 
coinworld.com | William T. Gibbs
Nearly hidden in the Federal Reserve’s order for paper money for 2024 was a brief notation that production of the next generation of $10 Federal Reserve note will begin in 2025, with release set to begin in 2026. What a long, tortuous journey it has been.
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Nov 19, 2023 | 
coinworld.com | William T. Gibbs
The theme of this issue’s Editorial is housekeeping — bringing you up to date on several subjects in this last monthly issue to be dated 2023 (though we are working on the magazine a few weeks before Thanksgiving, and New Year’s Eve is a month and a half distant).
2023’s top storiesIt is time to think about the year’s top stories. What were the top stories of 2023 for you?
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Nov 12, 2023 | 
coinworld.com | William T. Gibbs
The battle has begun, and who will win or dominate? Will classic older coin designs fare better than classic newer coin designs in the U.S. Mint’s latest survey?
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
coinworld.com | William T. Gibbs
Wow! Just wow! That was our reaction to the U.S. Mint’s announcement that it was canceling plans to use the 1794 Flowing Hair dollar designs on the 2024–2025 American Liberty coin and medal. In my Editorial in the November monthly issue of Coin World about the Mint’s decision to resurrect the 1794 Flowing Hair dollar designs, I asked, “...
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Nov 4, 2023 | 
coinworld.com | William T. Gibbs
The 2023 Limited Edition Silver Proof set goes on sale at the United States Mint website starting Nov. 28. The set, which contains eight coins, is priced at $220. It is limited to an edition of 50,000 sets, with a household order limit of one set. The set features coins identical to those in other 2023 Mint products, in single packaging.
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Oct 31, 2023 | 
coinworld.com | William T. Gibbs
The United States Mint has canceled plans to use the 1794 Flowing Hair dollar designs for the 2024-2025 American Liberty medal and coin program, citing objections from the design review panels. The United States Mint has canceled plans to use the 1794 Flowing Hair dollar designs for the 2024-2025 American Liberty medal and coin program, citing objections from the design review panels. This is breaking news. Coin World will have more details later.
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Oct 29, 2023 | 
coinworld.com | William T. Gibbs
Producing dies for the upcoming 2024–2025 American Liberty medal and coin program bearing the designs of the first U.S. silver, the 1794 Flowing Hair dollar, by using 21st technology is a bad idea. The charm of the nation’s oldest coins, those produced from 1792 to the 1830s, lies in the individualism of each die, the invariable imperfections resulting from the hands-on work of engraving the two main design devices and punching each star, letter and numeral into the die individually.
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Oct 22, 2023 | 
coinworld.com | William T. Gibbs
The United States Mint’s American Liberty gold coin and silver medal series, launched in 2015, has, to date, been all about experimentation — about offering new interpretations of Liberty not bound by historical precedent. Starting in 2024, however, the program will return to Liberty’s historical roots, resurrecting the designs used on the nation’s first silver dollar, released in 1794.
