The latest Tall Ships dollar coin for British Virgin Islands from the Pobjoy Mint features the HMS "Nymph," which served the British Royal Navy in the 18th century and sank in the harbor of the Islands' capital.

A unique practice offered by Pobjoy Mint allows for production of "Peral Black" finish applied to coins with Morgan and Peace tribute coins set to get the stunning treatment.

A pattern that served for Ireland's first coinage in the 1920s was offered in a Dix Noonan Webb auction in London with the penny bringing £17,360 with the buyer's fee.

Two Hungarian researchers played an important role in the development of vaccines used in combatting the global pandemic and their work is being honored on two commemorative coins.

Fritz Rudolf Künker’s March 21 auction of coins and medals from Brunswick will include a 1605 "Wildman taler" depicting a mythological creature, with an estimate equivalent to $2,216 U.S.

The second coin in the Royal Mint’s new Royal Tudor Beasts series of bullion and collector coins will feature the Lion of England in a variety of offerings for the special program.

Spain will release a circulating commemorative €2 coin celebrating explorer Juan Sebastian Elcano and the 500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation of the Earth in late March.

The red-bellied black snake is featured on the latest offerings of the Perth Mint's Deadly & Dangerous coin series: a silver coin for Tuvalu and a gold coin for Niue both starring the snake in color.

The fourth in a planned six-coin series showcasing ships by the Pobjoy Mint will center on a British Royal Mail ship that sank off the coast of the British Virgin Islands in 1867.

Poland's past Olympics teams' success is honored and the nation's involvement in the latest games is marked with 2022 gold and silver issues for the XXIV Olympic Winter Games.

Controversy continues to cast a shadow on Croatia’s adoption of the euro currency, with the latest kerfuffle involving allegations of a stolen coin design, requiring a second design contest.

The SMS Moltke of the German Imperial Navy is the subject of a 2022 50-penny coin in Pobjoy Mint's series for South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands featuring historical ships related to the islands.

The RCM's theme for the 2022 Proof .9999 fine silver $20 issue just released in its ongoing Commemorating Black History series is the Underground Railroad, in a design by Toronto artist Kwame Delfish.

The Royal Mint begins a five-year multicoin program in honor of historic British monarchs with 2022 Proof gold and silver coins celebrating Henry VII, using a remastered image from his coinage.

Two-term French president Jacques Chirac is honored with a circulating commemorative 2022 €2 coin from France, also available in Proof and Brilliant Uncirculated versions.

The third release in a planned five-issue series produced by Pobjoy Mint for Sierra Leone spotlights the antelope, with a copper-nickel dollar coin and Proof High Relief .999 fine silver $20 coin.

All of us imagine finding buried treasure in the form of a rare coin or hoard of coins. Some achieve that dream. A metal detectorist in the UK whose find excited historians now reaps the windfall.

A gold penny issued for Henry III in the 13th century was discovered by a metal detectorist in the UK in September 2021 and sold well above estimate in a Spink sale in London for £648,000.

A Kazakh-born cosmonaut carried a 2014 copper-nickel 50-tenge coin on a 2015 space mission and that coin is now in a Kazakhstan museum for exhibit, thanks to a collector's intervention.

A 32-gun frigate of the British Royal Navy that served in the American War of Independence and the Napoleonic Wars now appears on a dollar coin in a Ship series from Pobjoy Mint.