Records were set in the first segment sale of the L.E. Bruun Collection, as a 1496 gold noble of King Hans of Denmark realized the highest price ever for a Scandinavian coin, €1.2 million.

Medals celebrating the monster Godzilla that has ravaged the silver screen for 70 years are included in Japanese 2024 BU and Proof coin sets, with few available for December delivery to U.S. buyers.

The Royal Mint Museum is providing another educational opportunity for interested collectors by embarking on a new series of podcasts centering on coins and the sea.

Two circulating commemorative coins have been released for 2024 for Malta with the coins centering on the Maltese honeybee and the island of Gozo.

A new circulating commemorative 20-peso coin, to mark the 500th anniversary of the founding of the first Villa de Colima has been released in Mexico.

The Perth Mint is making Proof .9999 fine silver $1 coins for Tuvalu in tribute to Aretha Franklin in an ongoing music-themed series.

A mintage limit of 888 pieces defines a 2024 Black Proof Ultra High Relief 2-ounce .9999 fine silver $10 coin, strategically gilded, depicting Amphitrite, goddess of water.

A 2024 Proof .999 fine silver $1 from Niue showing the Sasquatch known to many as Bigfoot features color, and is now available for pre-order to collectors around the world.

The late European basketball legend Dražen Petrovic is being honored in his native Croatia with five new coins on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his birth.

The Mint of Finland is closing and will stop making coins for its home country and other countries after fulfilling existing contracts, with the closing date set for the spring of 2025.

With a mintage of just eight coins, the Perth Mint will continue its Jewelled Series by adding a gold Proof 10-ounce coin that features a turtle bedecked with diamonds.

A set of tokens used in the 1980s at a hospital colony for patients with leprosy is among many highlights in Stephen Album Rare Coins’ auction No. 50, crossing the block Sept. 19 to 21.

A team led by a University of Michigan archaeologist in western Turkey has uncovered a hoard of gold coins that included Persian darics likely used to pay mercenary troops.

A favorite character from the world of children's literature will delight those receive the 50-penny coins being offered by the Royal Mint that feature "Gruffalo's Child."

One of the most extensive Medieval coin hoards of recent times was announced in August when a German citizen came upon the find while working with a construction crew.

To commemorate the 200th anniversary of a national shooting federation, Swissmint issued a Proof .900 fine gold 50-francs coin, a year after a silver piece was introduced in 2023.

A highlight of an upcoming sale by Künker that includes pieces from the period of the Thirty Years War is a 1636 silver medal honoring the exploits of Polish King Vladislav IV.

The thrill of the hunt is a never-ending sensation that drives collectors to look through change and seek out coins in places where they may be otherwise often overlooked.

Coins bearing the likeness of King Charles III are beginning to circulate in the United Kingdom, with 2.975 million £1 coins featuring British bees on the reverse released Aug. 20.

The annual short-story competition held by the Royal Mint Museum for pupils aged 8 to 11 in the UK was won by an 11-year-old North London girl who wrote about "Coins and the Sea."