More than 50 gold coins and 40 feet of gold chain have been pulled up from the site of the 1715 Treasure Fleet shipwrecks off the coast of Florida.

Tiny silver slivers that are crudely struck turns out to be Russian wire money.

Gold estimated at worth $1 million was recently brought up from the site of the 1715 Treasure Fleet shipwrecks off the Florida coast, according to CBS News.

The War of the Spanish Succession, 1700 to 1714, was a true world conflagration that pitted the major European powers against each other.

A silver medal marking Napoleon's capitulation at the Battle of Paris was a highlight of A.H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd.’s June 23 Military auction No. 5 in London.

A rare, possibly unique, 1591 silver taler from Trier, Germany, is a highlight of Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio’s Aug. 12, 14 and 17 world coin auction.

One of the Royal Canadian Mint’s newest collector coins is the first to combine color, glow paint and borosilicate fine-art colored glass.

Slovakia will honor the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ludovít Štúr with a circulating commemorative €2 coin.

The Prospero Library on ancient coins will be offered for sale in a fixed-price list in September.

The ethnic groups of Kurds formed an entity known as Kurdistan which has issued fantasy coins.

A symbolic groundbreaking July 14 opened construction of the Schuler Innovation Tower at Göppingen, Germany. The company makes coin presses among other things

Germany in 2016 will began a six-year series of gold €20 coins honoring the nation’s domestic birds.

The medieval-era Danube River town of Regensburg with Stadtamhof is the theme for Germany’s 2016 .9999 fine gold €100 coin in its UNESCO site series.

The private Pobjoy Mint celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2015. The British firm was founded by Derek Pobjoy.

Germany’s first commemorative silver €20 coin to be offered at face value will celebrate the tale of Little Red Riding Hood.

The second volume in the four-volume Whitman Encyclopedia of Mexican Money series is now available.

The Hutt River Province, if not the most prolific coin-issuing secessionist state in history, is among the top contenders.

The most famous unrecognized state probably is Sealand, founded as a sovereign principality in 1967 in international waters off the coast of Britain.

A rodeo and western gathering in Quebec, Canada, has issued its first collectible trade token.

Luxembourg’s newest commemorative €2 coin marks the 125th anniversary of the House of Nassau-Weilburg, the governing family of the tiny, wealthy nation.

This five coin set depicts 5 different Shinkansen train lines on the obverse of the coins.

Images of a gold coin hoard and its recovery in Germany were released on July 17.

The Kingdom of Bermania is all in fun, and perhaps all in the mind of Connecticut coin dealer Allen Berman.

Among the impressive ancient Greek coins are silver tetradrachms struck by independent cities in the second century B.C., with reverse designs within a wreath.

The muskox is the sixth animal honored in the Royal Canadian Mint’s Wildlife in Motion series.

Most people would be hard-pressed to find Kurdistan or Bermania on a map, because these and other similar “nations” which have issued "coins," don’t exist.

The creative use of metal, including pace-age metals, ringed-bimetallic compositions, and embedded metals, is a big part of making modern world coins.

A metal detectorist in Germany discovered the find of a lifetime, 217 gold coins buried likely during World War II or shortly after.

In 1935, New Zealand honored the Waitangi treaty with one of the most famous type coins of the 20th century — the Waitangi crown.

What at first appeared to be a centered double strike to Coin World columnist Mike Diamond was actually a different, very rare error.

The Pobjoy Mint’s Proof 2015 .999 fine silver $10 coin celebrating Mount Rushmore has a concave reverse that features the monument in ultra-high relief.

Canada plans circulating 25-cent, $2 coins honoring ‘In Flanders Fields’ author

When India’s Bombay Mint opened in 1828, a medal was issued to celebrate.

A Roman coin sold in Schulman B.V.'s July 3 auction is proof that ancient Roman coins, even showing woman, are affordable and available.

Publisher Gadoury has just released the 22nd edition of Monnaies Françaises, a hardcover book exploring French coins from 1789 to 2015.

The Scottsdale Mint showcases the Ten Commandments as the fourth 2015 silver coin released in the company's Biblical silver coin series.

Coin World provides a quick look at what's happening in the world of numismatics.

The 10th issue in a series honoring Hungarian inventors celebrates the birth anniversary of a man who improved firefighting technology in Hungary.

Two new coins from the Perth Mint feature the television program "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine."

The Royal Mint has struck a special edition United Kingdom Proof .925 fine silver £5 coin to mark the second birthday of Prince George of Cambridge on July 22.

The Perth Mint is celebrating the 150th anniversary of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with two new .999 silver coins.

There're plenty of interesting bits today in the world of numismatics

Belgium plans to celebrate the European Year for Development in 2015 with a circulating commemorative €2 coin.

A famous image of a supplicant slave pleading for mercy became a famous motif of the anti-slavery movement in the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Bonhams announces upcoming sale of the 1934 Nobel Prize Gold Medal for Physiology or Medicine awarded to George R. Minot in 1934.

Any bank account with a balance from $0 to $175,000,000,000,000,000 (175 quadrillion) in Zimbabwe funds will receive a flat payment of $5 in U.S. funds.

France is issuing a circulating commemorative €2 coin celebrating the 225th anniversary of the Fête de la Fédération (Festival of the Federation), in July.

The Royal Mint has unveiled designs for a 2015 £5 coin that celebrates the christening of Princess Charlotte of Cambridge.