2020 commemorative coins celebrating Elton JOHN’s career by Royal Mint
- July 07, 2020
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- Pierre
The Royal Mint has announced that Elton John, one of the most successful and enduring artists of all time will be celebrated on a new commemorative coin.
With a career spanning more than 50 years, the new coin to celebrate Elton John’s legacy has been designed by artist Bradley Morgan Johnson. Featuring Elton John iconography, Bradley has used musical notes to create an image of glasses and a straw boater’s hat, inspired by one of Elton John’s iconic looks and a Union Jack flag background punctuates the design.
The...
First euro banknote signed by Christine LAGARDE, ECB’s president
- July 07, 2020
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- Pierre
The first euro banknote with the signature of C. LAGARDE was presented yesterday to the public .
Christine LAGARDE is the fourth ECB president to sign the euro banknotes, after WIM DUISENBERG, JEAN CLAUDE TRICHET and MARIO DRAGHI.
This first banknote with the new signature is a €5 note. The printing code is the letter N, which indicates that the banknote was printed by the austrian Central Bank printingworks.
It is also the 20th run of the €5 banknote for Austria, considering its short code “N020”.
It should be noted that some €5 banknotes...
In 2020 First collector’s digital coin in the world!
- June 20, 2020
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- Pierre
The Board of Directors of the Bank of Lithuania has approved the Regulation on the sale of the Bank of Lithuania’s digital collector coins “LBCOIN”. It is first and foremost the first digital collector’s coin in the euro area and even in the world!
The LBCOIN e-shop, where buyers will be able to create their accounts, is expected to be operational from July 9th 2020.
“LBCOIN” (digital euro coin) is the world’s first digital collector coin based on blockchain technology. It will entitle the holder to a set of six randomly...
Australia celebrates end of second world war with a 5 AUD silver coin
- June 16, 2020
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- Pierre
When the Second World War ended in the Pacific on 2 September 1945, it ushered in a new hope for peace and prosperity in Australia. Over a million Australians had served in the war, and nearly 40,000 lost their lives.
In remembrance of all Australians who were affected by the war, this 2020 $5 silver proof coin reflects the hope of peace and honours the losses.
Milne Bay Papua (September 1942) a Bofors gun position – Australian war memorial
Coin specifications
Coin Year: 2020
Denomination: $5
Finish: Proof
MDM’s album of zero euro banknotes – 30 years of German Refunded unity
- June 14, 2020
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- Pierre
On November 9th 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. The process of German unity was underway and one of the last stigmas of the post-1945 order of nations was disappearing in Europe. On this occasion, the MDM company decided to publish an anthological book on this event, illustrated with “zero euro” souvenir notes.
2020 marks the 30th anniversary of German reunification, buried by several treaties, the first of which was a monetary treaty between the two Germanies, establishing a parity of one West German mark for one East German mark.
Thirty years ago,...
Since 01/04/2020, a new buiding for KNM
- June 11, 2020
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- Pierre
Since 1st April, the KNM (Netherlands Mint) is officially located in a new emblematic building in Houten, also known as the ‘Dutch Vault’.
This new property has been specially developed for the Royal Dutch Mint and has a very “avant-garde” architecture!
Sources: KNM and NUMISMAG
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The Arambourgiania philadelphiae flies away in 2020
- June 10, 2020
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- Pierre
The Arambourgiania philadelphiae belongs to the family of pterosaurs, the first vertebrates that adapted to life in the air. Pterosaurs were not real dinosaurs, but like them, they were descendants of the first archosaurs.
The first of them appeared in the Late Triassic, about 228 million years ago. Their last representatives lived 66 million years ago on the border between the Cretaceous and Tertiary. Pterosaurs were already excellent flyers 60 million years before the birds and spread throughout the world.
Coin specifications
The Obverse of the coin shows, in the form...
2021 €2 commemorative coin celebrating the Finno-Ugric peoples
- June 09, 2020
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- Pierre
The two-euro commemorative coin for the Finno-Ugric peoples will use a design by the artists Al Paldrok and Madis Põldsaar. The Eesti Pank Supervisory Board decided that their design, named Eluring, was the best submitted.
In total 45 designs were submitted for the competition. Second and third places both went to designs by Riho Luuse.
The winning design is based on the cave drawings of Lake Äänisjärv, in which the symbols for the hunter, the elk, the water bird and the sun form the symbolic circle of life for the Finno-Ugric peoples....
2021 estonian Friedrich Karl Akel €15 commemorative coin
- June 09, 2020
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- Pierre
The silver collector coin dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the birth of the statesman Friedrich Karl Akel will use a design by Kristo Kooskora. The Eesti Pank Supervisory Board decided that his design, named Optika, was the best submitted.
The winning design shows a fragment from a portrait of the talented diplomat Friedrich Karl Akel and his signature against a background of a waving Estonian tricolour. The strictly regular design and images of the collector coin are a reference to Akel’s profession as an ophthalmologist, his position as head of...
2021 €2 commemorative coin – “Estonian wolf”
- June 09, 2020
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- Pierre
Estonia presents the €2 coin drawing dedicated to the wolf, the national animal.
The supervisory board of Eesti Pank (the Bank of Estonia) decided that the best project submitted to the competition was the design, which is called “Kriimsilm270”. The winning entry, designed by Maria Meos, depicts a wolf howling on a rock.
As the wolf is a forest species, the background of the drawing represents a spruce forest, characteristic of Estonia’s landscape. In addition, the starry night sky is depicted in the background, as then the wolf is most likely to...