The Pobjoy Mint is celebrating its newly redesigned website with an Easter egg contest. Two winners will receive vouchers to buy coins.

A circa 1888 silver "cake" coin from China's Kweichow Province highlights an April 2 auction in Hong Kong.

The third coin from Finland's Provincial Animals series showcases the hedgehog.

A gold presentation piece from Thailand highlights Stack's Bowers & Ponterio's March 30 and April 1 auction in Hong Kong.

Italy will celebrate the Expo Milano 2015 with a circulating commemorative 2-euro coin in 2015.

Italy will mark the 750th birth anniversary of Dante Alighieri with a circulating commemorative 2-euro coin in 2015.

Catalogue includes plenty of material from the library of Quentin Archer, which contains a lot of rich information

Its rich medallic tradition gave France a leading role in medallic records of World War I.

The Royal Canadian Mint's annual series of Proof silver $20 coins featuring Murano glass from Venice is due to continue in 2015 with a green turtle.

A Proof 1985 brass 1-yuan Panda coin should not exist, but was made for dignitaries. An example highlights a March 29 auction in Macau.

India's first prime minister, Jawarharlal Nehru, is the subject of 2014 circulating 5-rupee and silver 125-rupee coins being issued in 2015.

A £5 coin from the Royal Mint will mark the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s second child, expected in “mid-to-late” April.

The Pobjoy Mint is issuing a new coin for the Isle of Man celebrating Sir Winston Churchill, in two metallic versions: silver and copper-nickel.

Nazi-era coins and pottery were discovered at the site of a German hideout deep in the Argentinian jungle, according to The Telegraph.

The second issue in a series of coins featuring meteorites honors a crater in Australia, and includes fragments from the meteorite.

The fourth coin in an annual series featuring paintings by Gustav Klimt is scheduled for release April 15, according to the Austrian Mint.

All the talk in United Kingdom numismatics this week has been surrounding the new 12-sided pound coin and its newly released reverse design.

The Empress Zoe appears on a small number of Byzantine coins, but these pieces are as Byzantine as it gets.

When famine and drought struck India in 1873 and 1874, the Calcutta Mint created 1-rupee “grain” tokens to as part of relief efforts.

The Royal Canadian Mint has begun selling a 2015 silver $20 coin to mark the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup that is scheduled in Canada this summer.

The Royal Mint announced the winner of its public competition to design the reverse of the 12-sided £1 coin set for a 2017 release, and people are talking.

China has issued its first heart-shaped coins as part of a series honoring auspicious cultural symbols.

Yesterday Coin World reported that a reverse design for the Royal Mint's new £1 coin had been selected.

Designs for a joint circulating commemorative €2 coin marking the 30th anniversary of the European flag are due March 20.

Rose, leek, thistle and shamrock are gathered into a bouquet banded by a crown on the U.K.'s new £1 coin reverse, set for release in 2017.

The Royal Australian Mint announced that it would be selling unique production process pieces from its 50-year history in a Downies auction in May.

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Designer Joel Iskowitz is giving a fresh take on some iconic images on a new coin from Tristan da Cunha.

The Royal Mint has received approval from the Welsh government to begin construction on a visitors center, which is due to open in 2016.

A rare gold aureus of Titus, depicted as Caesar, leads Harlan J. Berk's buy or bid sale closing April 30.

Poet Dante Alighieri's birth anniversary is honored with a new commemorative €2 coin from San Marino in 2015.

The Republic of Armenia marks the centennial of Armenian Genocide with a silver collector coin.

March 14 is celebrated as Pi Day, because of the digits aligning with those of the famous mathematical figure. Did you know that there's a coin for that?

Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo, but French officials have won the fight over a coin commemorating the event.

The Royal Canadian Mint has begun a new series of coins honoring World War II battles, with the first coin for the Battle of Britain.

A gold Nobel Prize medal awarded to Simon Kuznets in 1971 brought nearly $400,000 on Feb. 26.

The CPAC will again be looking at possible import restrictions affecting various ancient coins that could impact collectors in the United States.

40 silver Greek coins, three gold Greek coins and a dozen gold Roman coins were found in University at Buffalo's archives.

The Royal Canadian Mint will celebrate Canada's 150th birthday in 2017 with new circulating coinage featuring designs submitted by the public.

The French government has objected to the use of a design commemorating the Battle of Waterloo on a new 2-euro coin, according to The Telegraph.

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A new book continues a series of “Handbooks” about Greek coinage published by Classical Numismatic Group.

When the SS Normandie entered service in 1935, it was the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat.

The reverse of the Proof high-relief 2-ounce .999 fine silver $2 coin in the name of Niue depicts the story of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion.

Members of the Israeli Caving Club discovered a trove of 2,000-year-old treasures including a pair of silver coins in a cave in northern Israel.

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The Perth Mint on March 3 released a limited edition 2-ounce commemorative coin struck from 91.67 percent pure pink gold that features an Argyle pink diamond.

An astonishing solid gold nugget was found during a prospecting expedition in Inglewood, a town located in the state of Victoria in Australia.

A chronological look at Queen Elizabeth II's portraits on coins from 1953 to the present, including more than the five used on UK circulating coins.

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Numismatic Guaranty Corp., is now offering its "plus" designation to world coins, in grades ranging from Extremely Fine-45 to Mint State-68.

The Royal Mint supplied photos of engraver Jody Clark and of his Queen Elizabeth II design coming together.

A very rare £1 coin dated 1643, one year after the start of the English Civil War between the armies of King Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, has surfaced.

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The newly-reborn Melbourne Mint has chosen Australian outlaw Ned Kelly as the subject for its first coin, a tiny silver 10-cent coin.

Australian gold prospector unearths 87-ounce nugget worth more than $100,000 in U.S. dollars.

An early Greek coin from modern-day Italy, a circa 525 to 500 B.C. silver stater, highlights an ancient coin auction March 13.

The Royal Mint has unveiled a new coinage portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.