The Royal Mint has issued three Proof commemorative 50-penny coins with a design inspired by black holes to celebrate scientist Stephen Hawking.

Two highlights of the Cherrywood Collection of Chinese Pattern coins, 1911 pattern silver dollars from China, are estimated to realized more than $100,000 each.

Author, dealer Harlan J. Berk, a specialist in ancient coins, provides a revised, updated personal guided tour of the numismatics of antiquity.

A gold 40-lira coin created during the 1848 Five Days of Milan uprising realized a hammer price of €2,000 during Emporium Hamburg’s March 2 auction.

Another volume in the 13-volume series "The Handbook of Greek Coinage" by Oliver D. Hoover is now available from the publisher, Classical Numismatic Group.

The 2019 A to Z 10-penny coin collection, showing an alphabet of British icons (the same ones featured in the 2018 series), is entering circulation in the UK.

Serbia’s new 2019 silver coin honoring Nikola Tesla commemorates our favorite electronic device — the remote control.

One of the Central Bank of Ireland's 2019 circulating commemorative €2 coins commemorates the centennial of the Dáil Éireann (Irish Parliament).

A colorful 2019 titanium coin for the British Indian Ocean Territory from the Pobjoy Mint shows a red-footed booby adult and chick.

William II, Prince of Orange, was only 24 years old when he died in 1650. A silver medal memorializing his short life is rich with symbolism.

The Royal Australian Mint is launching a new coin series called Echoes of Australian Fauna. The silver $5 coins feature selective gold plating on black nickel.

The Royal Dutch Mint is commemorating the centennial of the nation’s aviation history with three 2019 commemorative coins.

The Monnaie de Paris has issued a circulating commemorative €2 coin to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Royal Australian Mint has issued the 2019 Australia silver $5 Domed Earth and Beyond: The Sun coin. It completes a three-coin series.

The Pobjoy Mint has begun a coin series capturing Africa’s “Big Five” animals in high relief, with the first coin showing the elephant.

A rare silver denarius of the brief reign of Gordian Africanus II highlights a March 11 auction from Fritz Rudolph Künker.

Shrove Tuesday is the subject of two 2019 coins Lithuanian celebrations being issued — a copper-nickel €1.5 coin and a silver €5 coin.

Collectors found articles about two treasure hunters in the UK, a new limited-edition set from the U.S. Mint and a rare coin find in a bulk lot interesting.

Medallic commemorations to the Peace of Westphalia include a silver medal being offered at a March 2 auction by Emporium Hamburg in Munich.

A Panda coin for Tanzania was issued during the 2019 World Money Fair in Berlin.