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.

A 2022 3-ounce silver coin issued by Barbados includes an imbedded genuine chondrite meteorite and is uniquely shaped to offer great appeal, with a limited mintage of only 999 pieces.

The Royal Canadian Mint offers a Proof 2022 .999 fine gold $100 coin to mark the centennial of the passing of inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who resided in Canada for many years.

A joint circulating commemorative €2 coin program marking the 35th anniversary of the Erasmus Program is set for release July 1, with 19 nations each issuing their version of the commemorative coin.

A large, rare silver medal commemorating Poland’s King Wladyslaw IV Vasa and his visit to Danzig in 1642 will be offered in the Numismatic Auctions LLC sale in February.

Pobjoy Mint adds a Pearl Black finish Proof 2-ounce silver $20 coin for the British Virgin Islands to its several 2021 coins marking the centennial of the U.S. 1921 Morgan dollar-Peace dollar transition.

A new 2021 silver 10-zloty coin of Poland celebrates the dedication and compassion of medical staff during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, joining several other countries' similarly themed issues.

Spanish publisher Tauler & Fau has released digital versions of five works related to Spanish numismatics, for free, in honor of recently deceased colleague Rafael Tauler Fesser.

In 2021, China celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of its Communist party with a ringed-bimetallic 10-yuan coin. Precious metal collector coins for the centennial were also issued.

The 2022 FUN Convention provides an opportunity for dealers worldwide to take part in one of the biggest numismatic events in the U.S. and companies like Tamco Numismatics are regular visitors.

A colorful Proof 2021 .925 fine silver €5 collector coin issued by Latvijas Banka, Latvia's national bank, celebrates the miracles of imagination, hope and life in an inspiring way.

The Royal Mint unveiled its 2022 commemorative coin themes, and the coins are available in sets in a range of precious and base metals; the individual Platinum Jubilee coins launch Jan. 6.

The Israel Antiquities Authority recently found two different shipwrecks off the coast of Israel, near ancient Caesarea, from widely differing eras of antiquity, recovering coins and other personal belongings.

Two medalists at the biennial Congress of the International Art Medal Federation in Tokyo (FIDEM 2020/2021) shared the Mel Wacks Judaica Art Medal Award for their Judaic, Biblical or Holy Land themes.