Beginning in 2015, residents and visitors to the United Kingdom will be able to see where their coins are made when the Royal Mint opens a visitor center.

When Paul Kruger sought to win an election in 1892, he issued coins, which led to a major rarity in South Africa. A rare 1892 Proof set is up for auction.

A rare pond from Thomas Burgers' failed effort to issue coins in South Africa in 1874 highlights a May 14 and 15 Welz auction in Johannesburg.

Explorer Matthew Flinders published the first maps of Australia 200 years ago. A new coin from the Pobjoy Mint commemorates his groundbreaking work.

When Egypt's King Farouk got married in 1938, a series of gold coins celebrated the matrimony. The coins endure, unlike both the marriage and his reign.

The Royal Mint has been striking coins for more than 1,000 years, but English commemorative coins are a relatively new phenomenon.

The 1928 Auto dollar was among China's early commemorative coins that paved the way for a rich legacy of commemorative issues.

A silver dirham posing a puzzle to scholars of Islamic coins leads Morton & Eden's recent auction.

The Mint of Poland has a "yabba dabba doo" time with a new coin from Niue honoring the cartoon family The Flintstones.

A new coin from Niue celebrates Vincent van Gogh's 1888 painting Sunflowers.

A gold coin from the Late Roman Empire with a story of intrigue and revenge, and a Germanic connection, realized surprising results in March auction in Germany.

Germany's rich history of coin types and designs was highlighted in a March auction. Some of the variety: gold pattern, Mainz silver conventiontaler, klippes.

Silver coins of Greece are highly popular, with depictions of horses, eagles eating a rabbit, dolphins, etc. A recent auction reflects varied market results.

A set of four 1938 gold coins from Czechoslovakia realized nearly $400,000 U.S. in a March 2014 German auction.

The second silver £20-for-£20 coin from the United Kingdom will commemorate World War I, and have a lower mintage than the first in the series.

Pope John Paul II is being canonized April 27, and on April 15 the National Bank of Poland issued four coins honoring the new saint.

Which French general is honored on a bronze medal commemorative the return of Napoleon's body from the island of Saint Helena to France in 1840?

The author bought 20th century silver crowns or 5-shilling pieces for a few pounds each in the 1960s, about $3.25 in American money.

Stephen Album Rare Coins' 19th auction is May 15 to 17, 2014, at the offices in Santa Rosa, Calif. Ancient Islamic, Chinese, Indian, Arab-Byzantine coins.

Tanzania honors two popes with four new coins, including three available from a U.S. distributor.

Dimitriadus collection of ancient Roman gold coins was sold in a Chicago auction April 10 to 12, 2014.

The Singapore International Coin Fair 2014 attracted nearly 10,000 collectors and investors for the convention's fourth installment.

Gold shipwreck coins are Spanish, right? Not always: three Halsewell shipwreck English guineas are offered online in a Sedwick auction closing May 1 and 2 .

The Royal Mint altered the fineness of silver and gold Britannia bullion coins to .999 fine to compete in Asian and Indian markets where pure gold is coveted.

Royal Mint says its facility produces 15 percent of the world’s coinage and its global business was more than its next two competitors combined.

Britain's Royal Mint says its iSIS technology will allow cash handlers to sort through 4,000 coins a minute and pull out fakes.

For most of us a day trip or “staycation” to an exotic island resort is impossible, unless you happen to collect world coins.

Crispus, the eldest son and promising heir of the Emperor Constantine I “the Great,” was executed after having been condemned in a court of law.

Off the beaten path in the Welsh countryside, Britain’s Royal Mint is the center of coinage innovation in the U.K., and a world coin producing powerhouse.

A collection of Maltese coins of the Knights Hospitaller sold in a German auction in March 2014 at astonishing prices.

Fifty Phoenix and Dragon sets were made in 1990, a modern Chinese rarity. An example in a German auction realized about $111,300 U.S in March 2014.

Early machine-struck coins from China (some from 1897 struck on Schuler coin presses) highlighted a Chinese coin collection sold in a March 2014 German auction.

One of 56 examples struck, a 1938 gold 5 ducat from Czechoslovakia led bidding in a recent auction in Germany.

Five gold-plated nugget Latouche Island tokens sell for $14,101 in Nevada auction March 29, 2014.

New Zealand Mint coins celebrating Disney characters are selling out their limited mintage — but some remain available. Mickey Mouse is first.

Two longtime dealers whose names, Wilkes and Curtis, are well known in the British numismatic hobby have joined together to form a new auction house.

The Benchmark Collection of Australian pre-decimal coins has been graded and encapsulated by Numismatic Guaranty Corp.

In the early 1960s, Q. David Bowers made frequent trips to London where he made the rounds of the dealers to buy British and American coins.

Canada celebrates the World Baseball Classic in 2013 with several collector coins, including four silver coins showing positions on the diamond.

In 1994, Babe Ruth was honored on two coins from Liberia, an Uncirculated copper-nickel dollar and a Proof .999 fine silver $10 coin.

Numismatic Guaranty Corp. graded its 30 millionth coin in mid-April 2014, and is the first third-party coin grading service to reach this milestone.

The Perth Mint celebrates 100 years of "silent service" by Australia's submarines and the sailors on board with a new silver dollar.

On March 26, Taya Pobjoy, managing director of Pobjoy Mint, visited Vatican City and presented a coin from Seychelles to Pope Francis.

A unique silver penny of Æthelberht II is estimated to realize between £15,000 and £20,000 (about $25,104 to $33,472 U.S.) in a June 11 auction.

A new Proof .999 fine silver dollar from Tuvalu featuring the thorny devil, a lizard native to Australia, is the second in the Remarkable Reptiles series.

Canada expands its series of silver coins available at face value with a new "$50 for $50" coin showing the Polar Bear.

New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World and the American Numismatic Society have released a new version of OCRE.

A rare pattern from India's early years of independence realized about $5,575 U.S. in a March 26 auction.

A new silver 5-ounce coin from Niue commemorates Australia's entry into World War I.

The Austrian Mint on May 7 is releasing the fifth 10-euro coin, dated 2014, in a series honoring each of the provinces. The newest honoree is Salzburg.

Q. David Bowers often went to the street market in Portobello Road in London in the early 1960s in the search of rare coins.

Israel has begun a new series of silver medals to commemorate the Ten Commandments.

The third issue in a series depicting Medieval Hungarian Gold Florins is now available.

Davissons Ltd. is conducting its fourth electronic auction, closing April 24.

A new electronic book explores the coins of Roman emperor Domitian. The book was written by Rasiel Suarez and is an update of a 2010 printed book.

Ancient coin firms Classical Numismatic Group and Nomos Ag have revived the Classical Numismatic Review, a fixed-price list and magazine about ancient coins.

After 60 years in one location, Munich auction house Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger is moving to a larger site.

The American Israel Numismatic Association has published decades of research for free at its website.

Canada has produced three Type II counterclashes, all of which are found in the first year of the Millennium 25-cent coin series of 1999 to 2000.

Steinberg’s Inc. recently released its Spring 2014 “Gold Coins of the World” fixed-price list including an extremely rare Mexican 1988 gold 500-peso coin.

An archive of items from Augustin and Narcisse Dupré realized $351,000 at an April 2 Bonhams auction in New York City. It was purchased by John Kraljevich.

A group of rare 19th century Russian silver coins discovered among a large group of mostly worn common coins will be sold at auction in London June 10.

“Salvaging Spanish Sunken Treasure,” the Bob “Frogfoot” Weller Summer Seminar, is scheduled to be conducted June 16 to 19 in Lake Worth, Fla.