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.