The bearded bust of a man in turban dominates the obverse of an 82-millimeter copper silverplate medal of the Paris Mint’s Club Français de la Médaille.

Numismatic Guaranty Corp. will soon offer bilingual (Chinese and English) Early Releases and First Releases labels for Chinese Panda and Lunar Calendar coins.

A previously unknown silver tetradrachm from ancient Iran, only the second known piece, realized a $45,000 hammer price in a recent auction.

Mexico's new 2014 circulating commemorative 20-peso coin marks the centennial of the Taking of Zacatecas.

The Austrian Mint has issued its second .986 fine gold €100 coin from an annual Wildlife in Our Sights series. The 2014 coin shows the wild boar.

The fifth annual Singapore International Coin Fair is scheduled for March 27 to 29, 2015.

The Helvetic Mint, a private company, has issued four-medal sets marking the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, with designs from Swiss surrealist H.R. Giger.

The American Israel Numismatic Association is issuing the first Jewish Lunar medal, connecting a Passover tradition with the 2015 Year of the Goat.

The Royal Canadian Mint is now making 1-gram gold Maple Leaf bullion coins, denominated as 50 cents and sold in packs of 25 coins.

A unique gold aureus coin of Augustus Caesar realized £480,000 ($781,675 U.S.), including the 20 percent buyer’s fee, in Dix Noonan Webb’s Sept. 22 auction.

Telegraph reports that Laurence Edgerton came upon the so-called Seaton Down Hoard, which features coins that date back to the fourth century, in November 2013.

Austria continues its Piece by Piece series, with design input from children. The 2014 Tyrol coin shows lederhosen, drindls and Tyrolean hats.

The Mint of Finland's 2014 ringed-bimetallic €5 coin for the province called Finland Proper is the fourth coin in the Provincial Animals program.

A Canadian coin, found in a roll of small-sized U.S. dollars, and a token found in a roll of U.S. half dollars, make for an interesting study.

Vlad III Tepes (the Impaler) was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's vampire villain known as Dracula. Coins related to Tepes are available to collectors today.

A Proof silver $20 coin from Canada honoring the wood bison was based on a photo by a famed wildlife photographer.

The Royal Canadian Mint honors the Viking exploration of Canada in a new Matte Proof silver $15 coin in the Exploring Canada coin series.

A Proof 2014 1-ounce .999 fine silver $1 showing the Australovenator wintonensis is the first coin in the Perth Mint's Australian Age of Dinosaurs series.

The Royal Dutch Mint is selling several coins to honor the Dutch windmills of Kinderdijk.

Shields were an essential tool of war in the ancient world and are often depicted on coins of various kingdoms and cities.

Monsters are front and center during the Halloween season. Many world coins showcase some of these "monsters," real and imagined.

A private company has issued pattern "coins" for an independent Scotland that feature some of the country's most notable historical figures.

After more than 20 years in Mayfair, Classical Numismatic Group is moving its London office to Bloomsbury Street, near the British Museum.

A Russian pattern ruble from 1886 highlights Sincona AG's third and final auction of the Sincona Collection of Russian coins and medals.

Scottish themes and symbols have appeared on coins circulating throughout the United Kingdom continuously since 1937.

A rare £10 million Bank of England Treasury bill will be offered at auction Sept. 29 by Dix Noonan Webb.

To mark the 40th anniversary of its founding, the Royal Hawaiian Mint is issuing a limited-edition six-piece Proof piedfort set of medals in copper.

The National Assembly of debt-ridden Ecuador passed legislation in July that would create an official virtual currency backed by the state with “liquid assets."

The finest known 1681 silver half crown of Charles II of the Elephant & Castle type realized $35,250 in Heritage Auctions' Sept. 3 to 5 sale.

A silver tetradrachm of Syracuse in Sicily, issued circa 415 to 405 B.C., reflects Syracuse's prosperity and military dominance in the fifth century B.C.

The Royal Mint has issued new £5 coins struck for Alderney to commemorate the centennial of World War I.

The highest graded example of William Wyon's Three Graces pattern crown from 1817 highlights St. James's Auctions' Sept. 29 sale in London.

A 1961 cent and a 1963 pattern cent in nickel are among the low-mintage rarities in the Robert Bakewell Collection being sold Sept. 22 by Dix Noonan Webb.

A 1902 gold Veld pond, one of a reported mintage of 986 pieces, highlights the Robert Bakewell Collection being sold by Dix Noonan Webb.

The Royal Mint is asking residents of any age or nationality in the UK to submit designs for the new £1 coin to enter circulation in 2017.

Heritage Auctions will offer a large collection of more than 300 “Conder” tokens in its Oct. 2 World and Ancient Internet Coin Auction.

Germany's oldest active coin show, in Hannover, will marks its 100th show on Nov. 30, 2014.

The Royal Canadian Mint has sold out all four of its 2014 Superman coins, and prices have begun to soar in the secondary market.

Author Howard Berlin has recently completed The Numismatourist, a book highlighting coin collections and exhibits on display around the world.

A 1652-dated Massachusetts Oak Tree threepence was reportedly discovered Sept. 7 by a metal detectorist in a hunt in Britain.

Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and four other Disney characters feature on 2014 Proof silver $2 coins for Niue.

A rare copper 20-cash pattern coin for Honan Province in China realized $70,800 in an Aug. 21 auction in Hong Kong.

A 1902 gold British Trade dollar realized $236,000 U.S. during Baldwin's Hong Kong auction Aug. 21.

A new Proof silver €15 coin from Ireland honors Irish-American inventor John Philip Holland, the father of the modern U.S. submarine.

The Royal Mint has issued three coins to mark the 300th anniversary of the coronation of King George I.

The Victoria Cross is Britain’s highest gallantry award, and pair featured presented to two troops who were featured in the BBC program Our World War.

A bronze drachm of Trajan, issued in Alexandria, Egypt, shows a god of the annual flooding of the Nile River.