An extremely rare Pattern £5 gold coin designed as George III lay dying in 1820 is expected to sell for £200,000 to £250,000 in a London auction.

Coin grading services are grading ever-increasing numbers of modern world coins.

The wizards at the Royal Australian Mint and the Perth Mint really know silver, and collectors have taken notice.

The 20 coins are a small portion of the 5,251-piece hoard of 10th and 11th century coins unearthed last December and valued at £1.3 million

Collectors of modern world coins take different collecting approaches. Some will only buy coins that are in original packaging, and others want graded examples.

In recent years the market for modern coins has exploded. In part, this reflects the changing demographics of numismatics as new collectors join the hobby.

The first dedicated coinage of Scotland marked the debut of milled coinage for Scotland, and the first specific coins intended for circulation there.

ModernCoinMart staff designer Charles D. Daughtrey is out to honor not only great coin designs but the people who created them.

British Airways has turned one of its hangars into a giant coin display. 600,000 coins were put together to celebrate the beginning of the discount season.

A new $20 coin could shape a different future for Canadian coins. On Aug. 4, the RCM issued a Proof .9999 fine silver coin shaped like a maple leaf.

The 1715 Treasure Fleet was a group of mainly Spanish galleons bound from Havana to Spain, where the gold they contained would support the Spanish crown.

1715 Fleet Queen Jewels, the company that owns salvage rights to the wreck, made the recovery on July 30, the 300th anniversary of the 11-ship wreck.

San Marino honors the anniversary of Germany's reunification on a 2015 commemorative €2 coin.

Numismatic Guaranty Corporation, Numismatic Conservation Services and Paper Money Guaranty have chosen a Japanese firm as official submission center in Japan.

A 1927 pattern dollar for Sun Yat-Sen highlights Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio’s Aug. 24 to 26 auction in Hong Kong.

The Vatican City will issue a 2015 commemorative €2 coin in October for the VIII World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia.

Coin designer Adolph A. Weinman, who designed some of America’s most memorable coins, appears on the latest coin from Tuvalu.

Niue honors palace in Vienna on two-ounce silver coin

Tonga issued a set of five new 2015 dated coins for circulation to mark the coronation of King Tupou VI.

Monaco’s first gold coin since 2008 is selling fast. The Proof .900 fine gold €100 coin marks the 10-year anniversary of Prince Albert II’s reign.

The Mint of Finland’s second ringed-bimetallic €5 coin in a nine-coin sport series celebrates basketball.

The Austrian Mint celebrates composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of Austria’s favorite sons, and “A Life in Three Acts,” with a three-coin set.

A reader appears to have found a common copper-nickel 500-peso coin from 1988, and not a more rare gold version celebrating the nation's oil industry.

Indian 1-rupee coin has combination of die alignment problems: vertical misalignment, horizontal misalignment and a rotated die error.

India, birthplace of the physical, spiritual and mental practice known as yoga, marks the first International Day of Yoga with a circulating commemorative coin.