A Shaun the Sheep statue created by the Royal Mint will help raise money for a London charity.

Goldberg Coins & Collectibles' May 30 to June 3 auction features the finest of three known gold 7-ducat coins honoring the 1479 wedding of Maximilian I.

The Royal Mint will issue a new £1 coin into circulation later in 2015, but collector versions are now available.

Queen Elizabeth II handed out Royal Maundy coins on April 2 to 89 men and 89 women at Sheffield Cathedral.

The Central Bank of Russia honors composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky with a Proof .925 silver 2 rubles coin marking his 175th birth anniversary.

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.