2022 €100, €50 and €10 Malta coins – The Beheading of St. John
- April 14, 2022
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$8million worth rare coins joined auction by Royal Mint and Tasei
- April 12, 2022
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An estimated $8million worth of rare and beautiful coins have been revealed for an upcoming auction held by The Royal Mint, the original maker of UK coins, and Taisei Coins, Japan’s largest numismatic firm. The numismatic giants have joined forces to offer the global coin collecting community the opportunity to bid on the impressive range in the upcoming international auction, taking place at the Tokyo International Coin Convention 2022.
An exceptional international Auction
The Royal Mint and Taisei Coins have now opened online registration for the auction allowing potential bidders...
2022 proof coin set – NETHERLANDS
- April 07, 2022
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From 2022 to 2025, the National Collection’s annual sets will be dedicated to the four elements: earth, fire, air and water. The series begins this year with the “Earth” set.
The “Land” medalThe medal of the BE series of the Netherlands 2022 also has the theme of the earth. The medal shows two hands holding a sprouting seed. Surrounded by leaves, the hands also form the trunk of a tree. The trees are a perfect illustration of the unique workings of the Earth.
You can also personalize the medal on the...
2022 commemorative coins dedicated to Tale of Peter Rabbit, by Royal Mint
- April 06, 2022
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The Royal Mint has revealed commemorative coins marking 120 years since the first publication of Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit, developed in collaboration with Penguin Ventures.
Royal Mint will issue a £2, two £5 and a £100 commemorative coins.
Most-loved childhood characters
As well as minting the coins found in our pockets, The Royal Mint makes collectable coins celebrating key themes and milestones and featuring some of Britain’s most-loved childhood characters on UK coin.
The Royal Mint’s own Ffion Gwillim created the design using original storybook illustrations, settling on an image...
2022 New £50 polymer banknote from Ulster Bank
- April 03, 2022
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A new banknote is set to celebrate some of the remarkable achievements of women in Northern Ireland. Ulster Bank’s new £50 polymer banknote will be put into circulation this summer. It focuses on women working in Northern Ireland’s thriving life sciences sector. The main theme of the bill concerns Jocelyn Bell’s discovery of pulsars in 1967 – spherical, compact objects the size of a large city but containing more mass than the sun. Jocelyn Bell, born in Lurgan, is considered one of the greatest astrophysicists. Her discovery was rewarded by...
Czech commemorative banknote dedicated to the economist KAREL ENGLIS
- April 02, 2022
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The decision to issue a second commemorative bill, following the one issued in 2019, with a face value of CZK 100 in the year 2022 with a portrait of Karel Engliš was approved by the Bank’s Board of Directors on October 3, 2019 when approving the new issue plan for the years 2021 to 2025.
The series of three commemorative banknotes (issued or to be issued in 2019, 2022 and 2026) has a main topic which is “The construction of the Czechoslovak currency through time”.
In order to ensure a certain artistic...
US MINT asks Americans to put their coins back into circulation
- April 01, 2022
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The U.S. Mint is once again asking the public to help keep coins circulating by using exact change when making purchases or exchanging them for bills at coin recycling kiosks or by returning them to bank branches.
Coins are not moving through the economy as quickly as they did before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to findings from the US Mint. Cash transactions have declined significantly since 2019 as more people have turned to electronic transactions. Sometimes coins are not readily available where they are most needed. This is not a coin...
2022 numismatic program from Belgium
- March 31, 2022
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In 2020 and 2021, the RMB did not issue any circulation coins (5cent to 2€ face value coins, as Belgium no longer strikes 1 and 2 cent coins for circulation, for several years).
In 2022, the BRM does not plan to mint bullion coins (gold, silver or platinum coins).
The public contract for the minting of circulation coins for the Royal Belgian Mint has been awarded for a new period of 4 years (2022-2026) to the Netherlands Mint.
The service concession for the destruction of unfit coins, for the benefit and under the...
OSMIUM, an investment metal with great potential
- March 30, 2022
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OSMIUM is a metal that has recently been introduced to the investment metal market. According to Virginie GRONDIN, the director of the OSMIUM Institute FRANCE, this metal is the eighth precious metal. It joins gold, silver, rodhium and irridium.
OSMIUM comes from the transformation of platinum. The process to obtain OSMIUM consists of 160 different operations. At the end of the transformation process, the metal is obtained in a crystalline form. In its raw state, OSMIUM is indeed a poison for human beings.
This metal was discovered in the 19th century, but...
2022 €20 coin “black hole” from Austrian Mint
- March 29, 2022
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Austrian Mint will issue a concave on one side and convex on the other, The “Black Hole” coin illustrates the funnel shape of these regions of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape from them. One way of envisaging a black hole is as a vortex that draws in everything in its immediate proximity. Once beyond the point of no return – known as the ‘event horizon’ – the ‘singularity’ awaits at the centre. Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose showed that this is a place where...