Russia 2011 25 rouble coin with Sochi reverse.  Image courtesy of the Central Bank of Russia. In February 2014, Russia will host the Winter Olympic Games for the first time.…

Mauritius 1992 5 rupees, KM# 56 Once you start to explore the world of foreign coin collecting, you’ll inevitably run across KM numbers (frequently abbreviated “KM#”). Collecting sites like Numista…

Thailand 1962 1 baht Thailand, located in southeast Asia a little south of China, is another country that does not use Western Arabic (European) numerals (0, 1, 2, 3…) to represent…

If you browse the coins available for sale at a large world mint like the Royal Canadian Mint, alongside uncirculated and proof sets of the country’s regular coins you’ll probably…

In the United States, our smallest circulating coin is the dime (10 cents). Its diameter is 18mm (a little less than 3/4 of an inch), which is only 1mm smaller…

The winning designs for Andorra’s new euro coins. Andorra is a small country (a microstate) with a population of around 85,000 located in Europe between France and Spain. Andorra is…