The eighth silver $100 coin in Canada’s Wildlife in Motion series celebrates the orca.

Collectors have hundreds of options to begin collecting coins showing beards. Here are some starting points.

Facial hair on coins documents history and personal style. Just as ancient coins reflect changing preferences, later coins exhibit influences of the times.

Romans take control of Jewish fortress of Masada on April 16, A.D. 73, bringing end to First Jewish Revolt.

Beards are a symbol of masculinity, a vestigial trait from a time when humans had more hair on their bodies. Coins reflect changing attitudes toward beards.

After the Battle of Lützen in 1632 and 1633 during the Thirty Years’ War, Duke Albrecht von Wallenstein gave gifts to his supporters.

For more than two decades Augustus’ successor Tiberius (A.D. 14 to 37) had to deal with the thorny issue of succession.

RMS Titanic hits an iceberg on April 14, 1912, sending hundreds to their death in the North Atlantic ocean.

Many die cracks extend in from the edge of the die and end blindly somewhere in the field and design.

America suffered another setback in its race to space with the Soviet Union on April 12, 1961, when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.

Following the Glorious Revolution in 1688, William III and Mary II were crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain on April 11, 1689.

One day in 1898, South African President Paul Kruger allowed industrialist Sammy Marks to strike his own coins at the mint.

A British Viking hoard known as the Watlington Hoard adds info and raises questions about Anglo-Saxon history and England's early rulers.

A rare gold medal presented to Adm. Lord Graves for the British Fleet’s victory at the Battle of the Glorious First of June, in 1794 sold at a London auction.

British convicts sent to Australia often made love tokens. The Royal Australian Mint has made modern coin replicas of this tokens.

Roman Emperor Caracalla, one of the most infamously brutal Roman rulers, was assassinated on April 8, 217.

The second edition of Howard Daniel III's catalog of coins and paper money of North Vietnam from 1946 to 1978 is now available.

Few American numismatists will recognize the name of the Italian statesman Francesco Crispi (born 1818, died 1901).

There are any number of reasons to modify a coin’s design. It might be done to improve the strike or reduce wear in particularly vulnerable areas.

Portugal’s newest circulating commemorative €2 coin celebrates a famous bridge in the nation’s capital city.

Portugal celebrates the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil with a circulating commemorative €2 coin

Slovenia marks the 25th anniversary of its independence with a circulating commemorative €2 coin.

One of the more “affordable” examples of the 1930 Australian penny highlights sale No. 83 for International Auction Galleries on April 23 in Queensland.

London auction house Morton & Eden conducted an auction March 17 of the Motcomb Collection of English silver groats.

The seaside principality of Monaco marks the 150th anniversary of its founding with a 2016 circulating commemorative €2 coin.