The Royal Australian Mint is selling a domed coin to celebrate the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 being held in Australia and New Zealand.

President Abraham Lincoln received a new home on Presidents Day, being placed on a Proof silver dollar from Niue.

New coinage technology developed by the Mint of Poland allows the striking of spherical coins, changing the shape of new issues.

The Pobjoy Mint has issued an Ultra High Relief Proof silver $10 coin for the British Virgin Islands showing the Sphinx in Egypt.

Two Spanish con-men face attempted fraud charges after selling a forged painting that the buyer paid for with fake Swiss francs.

Visitors to the Galt Museum & Archives in Canada can see the design process involved in producing bank notes and stamps.

South Africa's gold Veld pond was struck during times of war, and is one of the rarest emergency coins from the world.

During a severe coin shortage, the Bank of England used money to make money, counterstamping other currency to make it passable in Britain.

It's Feb. 21 in Australia, and the Royal Australian Mint is celebrating its 50th birthday. Keep up on all the fun via the RAM's Twitter feed.

The woolly mammoth dominates both sides of Austria's final Proof .900 fine silver €20 coin from a prehistoric "Back from the Dead" coin series.

When King James II of England was deposed, he issued Irish gun money to pay for his campaign to return to the throne.

North Korean coins were available during the World Money Fair in Berlin, but they remain illegal to import into the United States.

Nearly 2,000 gold coins from the 11th century were found in an ancient harbor of Caesarea National Park.

Emergency coins were required during the unsuccessful Bar Kochba Revolt against Roman rulers.

A circa 1705 beard token from Russia in Fritz Rudolph Künker's auction is a remnant of a time when facial hair was taxed in Russia.

World War II armed hostilities ended in 1945, and Churchill returned to Chartwell to write, paint and even build brick walls in his gardens.

The Royal Bank of India announced in a Feb. 18 notification that gold imports by Indian banks and trading houses are no longer prohibited.

Nobel laureate Ernest Walton and his groundbreaking achievements in the field of physics are the focus of Ireland's first commemorative coin of 2015.

Organizational art medals (from nonprofit and for-profit businesses and professional organizations) typically strive to inspire feelings of security and trust.

An Antique Finish 2015 Temple of Heaven .999 fine silver $20 coin is struck from "four-layer" technology to create a detailed, three-dimensional look.

Antiquities like the nearly 2,000 11th century gold coins discovered recently in the ancient harbor of Israel's Caesarea National Park belong to the state.

The Royal Mint has issued four large pure silver and gold coins to celebrate Sir Winston Churchill.

During emergencies, coins are hard to come by and never needed more. Several examples of emergency coinage are collectible today.

Churchill became British prime minister in 1940. He called England's struggle something that would be remembered as the nation's finest hour.

In all, almost 2,000 gold coins from the 11th century Fatimid period were discovered recently in Caesarea National Park.