The sport of basketball, a favorite in the Eastern European nation of Lithuania for 100 years, is the motivation for the national basketball court design of a 2022 circulating commemorative €2 coin.

One of the most famous ancient gold coins, with only three examples known, the gold Eid Mar aureus recently on display at the British Museum is offered in a May 31 Numismatica Ars Classica auction.

A rare coin created through the action of a 20th century Italian king and coin collector is for sale at Sincona AG's May 17 auction in Zurich, and it carries an opening bid of 40,000 Swiss francs.

Stack's Bowers Galleries realized a record in their world coin sales when a 1911 silver dollar pattern from China achieved an auction price of $3 million in the firm's May 4 Hong Kong sale.

Today's museum displays are offering medals as an indication of a means to putting the work of artists into greater perspective and increase understanding of the detail of the work.

A circa A.D. 103 to 111 gold aureus of Trajan, the man that presided over one of the greatest military expansions in Roman history, is being offered by auction house Stephen Album Rare Coins.

Weeks before Poland would earn the praise of nations around the globe for assisting refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine, a coin was released for the defense of Poland’s border.

A new 5-ounce .9999 fine silver $5 coin from Tuvalu rekindles the debate over Pluto’s place in the planetary hierarchy. The design features all eight planets and the dwarf planet Pluto.

What could be the finest example of a coin considered an important modern Swiss rarity, a 1928 silver 5-franc coin, will be offered in Swiss auction house Rapp’s May 6 auction.

Thousands who put their own health and safety at risk for the betterment of Australian citizenry are honored with a special colorful $2 Frontline Workers coin released into circulation March 24.

Dr. Nathan Elkins, who has been working with the American Numismatic Society as a visiting research scholar, will assume the position as the organization's deputy director later this year.

It has been 40 years since Great Britain and Argentinian went to war over control of the Falkland Islands and Pobjoy Mint is marking the occasion with a pair of £2 coins.

The year 2022 marks the beginning of the eighth decade of the rule of Queen Elizabeth II and the nation of Tokelau commemorates the occasion with the issuance of a trio of Proof coins.

Emporium Hamburg's May auction will include a bronze medal of Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson and his ship that was made from the metal recovered from the ship itself after recovery.

A new circulating commemorative €2 coin from Latvia will focus on the importance of financial literacy with the hope of bringing attention to the critical role of the concept for the nation's future.

The French Mint is conducting a fundraising effort with the creation and sale of Ukraine-themed medals with the proceeds from the sales to go to the International Red Cross for hunger relief efforts.

Proceeds from the sale of medals commissioned by the Jewish American Hall of Fame honoring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will benefit embattled Ukrainians and refugees.

The Winnie the Pooh and Friends coin series of 50-penny coins has a new member in 2022, as the droopy-eared Eeyore joins his friends of the Hundred Acre Wood in the collection.

One of nine examples known of a gold coin from medieval England was found by a metal detectorist and offered in a Dix Noonan Webb auction in London, selling for £18,600.

With the addition of Dr. Chris B. Theodotou collection of Byzantine coins, Princeton University can now claim the largest collection with over 16,000 coins from the period.