Portugal: 2018 €2 commemorative coins dedicated to National Printing works and to AJUDA garden
- December 09, 2017
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- Pierre
The Mint of Portugal will strike two €2 commemorative coins from its 2018 minting program. The first one celebrates the 250 anniversary of Portugal national printing works, created on December 24th 1768 under the name of “Royal printing works”, also called “typographical Office of Régia”. It becomes, starting from 1833, National Printing works until 1972. After several mergers, it took the name of “Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda”.
The other 2€ commemorative coin will celebrate the 250 anniversary of the AJUDA botanical...
Defence line of Amsterdam, KNM 2017 commemorative coinages
- December 06, 2017
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- Pierre
Around the Dutch capital Amsterdam lies a unique defence line of 42 forts, 4 batteries and a large amount of dikes and locks. This is the Defence Line of Amsterdam (“Stelling van Amsterdam”). The defence line is a historical monument for the Netherlands and has been listed on UNESCO World Heritage List, since 1996.
This impressive defence line will be honoured with an official commemorative coin. The ‘Stelling van Amsterdam’ commemorative coin is the sixth official issue in the series of...
Polymer Coin Wins IACA Award for Best Coin Innovation – 5 Euro coin 2017-TropischeZone
- December 04, 2017
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- Pierre
The IACA Excellence in Currency 2017 Coin Awards were conferred during The Coin Conference in Warsaw on October 24, 2017. The State Mints of Baden-Wuerttemberg and the Bavarian State Mint were awarded the prize for Best Coin Innovation for their coin featuring a polymer ring. Every two years, the International Association of Currency Affairs bestows the distinguished IACA Excellence in Currency Awards. On October 24, 2017, a German product was thus recognized: the tri-materialring was labelled ‘Best Coin Innovation’.
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Lituania december the 4th: outstanding auction for an outstanding collector
- December 03, 2017
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- Pierre
The Bank of Lithuania offers to purchase litas banknotes that have never been put into circulation. The exclusive set of banknotes consists of three denominations of LTL 1,000 and LTL 500 banknotes of the 1991 issue as well as the LTL 100 of the 1994 issue. The first sets of banknotes will be available for sale already during the electronic auction to start on Monday December the 4th. Lituanian NCB has been constantly asked about the possibility of purchasing rare...
The new zero euro Banknote dedicated to china and dog year
- December 03, 2017
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- Olivier
Euro Banknote Memory will sell in the very next days a new zero euro banknote dedicated to china and dog year in chinese calendar. The first chinese zero euro banknote will be shipped to the client early december. It is dedicated as well to french-chinese frienship. The chinese client is a well known professionnal dealer. The Chinese acronym on the right means “good year of the dog”, since in 2018 it will be the year of the dog. It will...