Tropical Fiji has issued coins for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. The two-coin offering has a mintage limited to 2,000 sets.

Andorra in December will issue a €2 coin marking its status as the only nation entirely within the Pyrenees Mountains.

An 1880 silver medal from France celebrates the French efforts at building the Panama Canal, which ultimately were not successful.

Germany’s 2016 law governing cultural property, which includes the sale of coins, is in contradiction with and “an abuse” of European Union law, experts say.

The Pobjoy Mint has issued a piedfort (double thick) silver $10 coin for the British Virgin Islands to celebrate Queen Victoria.

Dragons and pearls are often paired together in Chinese art, and the Perth Mint’s silver dollar for Tuvalu is one incarnation of those commonly joined themes.

To mark the Reformation’s 500th anniversary, the National Bank of Hungary is issuing a silver 10,000-forint coin and a copper-nickel 2,000-forint coin.

The Battle of Trafalgar is the third coin in the New Zealand Mint’s Battles That Changed History series of silver $2 coins.

Cyprus will issue on Nov. 3 a circulating 2017 commemorative €2 coin to celebrate a European city being lauded for its cultural value.

The Royal Mint is recognizing the platinum wedding anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip with 11 different coins, some in platinum.

Canada celebrates the 125th anniversary of the Stanley Cup with a Reverse Proof .999 fine silver $50 coin shaped like a portion of the trophy.

This week, we also learned that a Canadian technology firm is devising a safer way to extract gold and other precious metals from electronic waste.

The Vatican City is issuing a commemorative €2 coin to mark the centennial of the Fatima apparitions in Portugal in 1917.

Businesses may no longer pay them out in change, but a few will continue to accept them in payment from their customers, at least for a short time.

Treasure in the form of ancient Roman gold and silver coins has been found at a mining site in Huelva, southern Spain.

Canada’s newest circulating dollar honors the centennial of the Toronto Maple Leafs, a National Hockey League franchise.

A new 1-ounce silver $2 coin issued in the name of Niue celebrates the astrophysical phenomena of black holes.

A contemporary counterfeit gold aureus passed as for Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and sold in Classical Numismatic Group’s Sept. 13 auction.

The Royal Canadian Mint has issued a 2017 circulating commemorative $2 coin and silver $3 coin honoring the Battle of Vimy Ridge 100 years ago.

The fantasy 1812 Ceylon silver 4-rixdollar pieces were made in the United States in the 1970s. This example sold at auction Sept. 14 for $411.25.

Author Colin R. Bruce II, long-time editor at Krause Publications, died Sept. 3, 2017, from cancer.

Coins have long been used for various things over the centuries, but armor? Not many can say they've seen coins used as a means for protection. This tribe did.

Also this week, PCGS certified a two-tailed quarter, along with a 1968-S quarter on 90 percent silver planchet.

The nation’s second circulating commemorative €2 coin of 2017 pays tribute to Finland’s nature.