The second issue in a limited-mintage series of Mandala coins from Fiji offers a Celtic twist.

An error version of the Royal Canadian Mint’s Proof Roaring Grizzly .99999 fine gold $200 coin has been discovered.

The edelweiss, the alpine symbol par excellence, is the first subject in a three-year commemorative coin program of 10-Swiss-franc coins.

The Austrian Mint’s 2016 niobium coin honors the passage of time. The ringed-bimetallic €25 coin features heat-treated niobium to offer color on the coin.

The Perth Mint’s latest low mintage Kookaburra silver coin was released in conjunction with the World Money Fair in Berlin.

The Pobjoy Mint’s newest colorful titanium coin, issued on behalf of the British Virgin Islands government, features the powerful great white shark.

To celebrate the venerable four-leaf clover, the Royal Canadian Mint has issued a Proof .9999 fine silver $20 coin sporting a colorful image in green.

To mark the centennial of the Migratory Birds Convention, the Royal Canadian Mint has started a series of Proof .9999 fine silver $20 coins depicting birds.

The Perth Mint has issued a Proof .999 fine silver dollar from Tuvalu showing the death adder, the latest issue in its popular Deadly & Dangerous series.

While many coins show maps, far fewer coins are shaped like maps, with most of these rare items issued since 2012.

Pobjoy Mint issues colorful titanium coin for British Antarctic Territory showing emperor penguins.

Though the Spartans were accomplished in many regards, they maintained a low profile when it came to coinage, which they found both effeminate and unappealing.

Where coins with maps once offered information vital for defense or staking out control, today maps more likely reflect a nation’s borders.

In January 2014, the Australian answer to the American Eagle silver dollar was born: the Wedge-Tailed Eagle.

Maps and coins have played critical roles in world exploration. Coins have depicted maps for hundreds of years. Some coins are even shaped like maps.

A silver drachm from the third century — issued in Gortyn on the island of Crete — is an example of an ancient coin depicting the story of Europa and Zeus.

The 45th annual World Money Fair, hosted in Berlin for the 11th year now, was a homecoming of sorts for the hobby.

A gold necklace sold at auction recently features 17 gold coins from Austria.

Germany will honor painter and printmaker Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix in 2016 with a commemorative silver coin marking the artist’s 125th birth anniversary.

A distributor in the United States is offering shooting medals celebrating a Switzerland tradition.

Belgium is celebrating the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil with a circulating commemorative €2 coin.

A group called Canada’s Republic Now insists that the Royal Canadian Mint and Canada Post remove Queen Elizabeth II from the country's stamps and coins.

Norse god Odin, associated with healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, battle, sorcery and poetry, appears in ultra-high relief on a 2016 Niue coin.

Proof 2016 High Relief .999 fine silver $5 coin stars Monty the crocodile, who lives at the Australian Zoo, in the fourth year of a program featuring the zoo.

First Royal Canadian Mint convex/concave coin, 2016 Antique Proof Ultra-High Relief .999 silver $25 coin, shows Library of Parliament domed ceiling.