The Austrian Mint on Oct. 28 will issue the third Proof .986 fine gold €100 coin in the “Wildlife in Our Sights” program.

The Royal Mint continues its Shengxiào Collection with coins celebrating the Lunar Year of the Monkey, which starts Feb. 8, 2016.

Medals, orders, and decorations earned by Sir Ernest Shackleton for polar exploration are headed to auction.

A debased gold stater in Nomos Ag’s auction No. 11, scheduled for Oct. 9, highlights the connections between the Celtic and Greek cultures.

An 1895 gold off-metal strike of the British Trade dollar led all bidding during an Aug. 27 auction in Hong Kong.

The Scottsdale Mint is trying to make coin collectors an offer they can’t refuse, issuing two Proof silver $2 coins for the movie franchise The Godfather.

World mints are constantly striving to advance the technology of coin security, to stay at least one step ahead of the counterfeiter.

Egypt’s opening of a new Suez Canal project is now celebrated with a circulating commemorative ringed-bimetallic 1-pound coin.

German auction firm Fritz Rudolph Künker continues to bring thousands of coins and medals to the market in its week-long auctions events.

I recently encountered my first foreign edge strike in the form of an undated aluminum India 10-paise coin with a design that was minted between 1983 and 1993.

Great Britain produced an 11-coin set in 1887 to celebrate the 50th year of Queen Victoria’s reign, commonly referred to as the Jubilee design.

World coin issuers can shoot for the moon with space-themed coins, and the future looks bright.

Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio has hired Zhou Shou Yuan as its Executive Consignment Director in China.

A statue of the goddess of love, Aphrodite, is featured on a 2015 Proof .925 fine silver €5 coin from Cyprus.

All eyes will be on numismatics in Berlin when the 17th Numismata show opens its doors. A joint international coin and philatelic fair invites visitors.

A historic reign more than 63 years in the making is the subject of four new coins from the Pobjoy Mint.

The Austrian Mint’s series of silver coins designed by children continues with the Oct. 7 release of a coin for the eastern province of Burgenland.

Mike Gasvoda is selling many of his ancient Roman coins of the 12 Caesars and shifting his focus to other ancient coins.

Vikings: Gods, Kings and Warriors is a 15-coin series struck by the Scottsdale Mint and available exclusively through American Precious Metals Exchange.

A highlight of Fritz Rudolph Künker’s auction No. 267 is a silver example of the shooting talers or shooting medals from Saxony.

Technology is being used to shape coins to resemble constellations and to even to include pieces of meteors that crashed through the Earth's atmosphere.

The last living sovereign to have served in uniform during World War II now appears on a 2015 coin marking the anniversary of the war.

Of the myriad themes depicted on modern world issues, astronomy and space are certainly among the most popular.

Though electrum was used exclusively for the earliest coins, the greatest production of electrum coinage in Asia Minor continued much later.

As of now, the Longest Reigning Monarch £20, designed by Stephen Taylor, leads the way by a significant amount with 37 percent of the vote.