Charles de Gaulle is honored with a circulating 2020 commemorative €2 coin from France.

The Royal Australian Mint has issued a new 50-cent coin to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Indian Pacific Railway.

Hungary’s only gold coin design for 2020 celebrates the 15th century gold florin of King Ulászló (Vladislaus) of Jagiello (1440 to 1444).

The third coin in the Australia at Night series is in the marketplace, this one honoring the echidna.

An engraved halfpenny created for a Moses Robus apparently circa 1776 is being offered at auction Feb. 1 in London.

Numismatist Ricardo Lopez has been conducting research to positively identify a circa 1807 shipwreck in the ocean waters surrounding Cuba that yielded roughly 175 silver 8-real coins issued by a handful of Spanish Colonial nations.

Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History announced the theft of numismatic items from a museum at the Fort of Guadalupe, site of an important battle in 1862 where Mexicans achieved a victory that is celebrated every May 5.

An array of Thailand’s famous "bullet money,' including several lots from the Charles Opitz Collection, was offered during Heritage Auctions’ Dec. 5 and 6 auction in Hong Kong.

This 1907-S Philippines peso graded PCGS MS-66 is among the finest-known. The condition rarity brought $15,600 at Stack’s Bowers’ offering of the Pasig River Collection this past summer.

The Royal Mint has announced five circulating commemorative United Kingdom coins for 2020. These honor the Mayflower, Victory in Europe Day, Dame Agatha Christie, the Olympics and George III.

Of the 2,558 Proof pesos struck at the Philadelphia Mint in 1903, this PCGS Proof 66 example is especially attractive and sold for $3,840 at the ANA World's Money Fair in August 2019.

An early example of the Joachimstaler silver coin (that would influence the word dollar) appears in a Jan. 30 Fritz Rudolph Künker auction in Berlin.

A ringed-bimetallic 20-piso coin has been issued in the Philippines to replace a bank note of the same denomination.

One highlight of Wacks collection is a Roman coin issued circa A.D. 97 and long thought to commemorate a Jewish head tax repeal by the emperor. Recent scholarship suggests a different reading intended by the inscription.

A late 15th century silver testone from Italy shows the Duke of Ferrara and a horse modeled after a statue by Leonardo Da Vinci.

The Pobjoy Mint has issued a commemorative “Pearl Black” 50-penny coin to celebrate the Penny Black stamp.

An unusual and extensive offering of money used throughout southeast Asia from the collection of researcher Charles J. Opitz was offered in Hong Kong at Heritage’s Dec. 5 to 6 World Coin auction.

Silver and gold Swiss shooting talers are being issued for the 2020 federal shooting festival scheduled for Lucerne from June 12 to July 12.

China has issued a rounded square 5-yuan coin to begin a series highlighting the nation’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

This 1945 silver threepence, recently authenticated and graded MS-63 by NGC, is scheduled to be auctioned in March 2020, with an estimate of £15,000 to £25,000 ($19,812 to $33,019).