2022 belgian €2 ERASMUS coin – added specifications (issued and unissued coin)
- August 12, 2021
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- Pierre
Following the publication of all the designs of the 2022 €2 ERASMUS coin, NUMISMAG interviewed IRIS BRUIJNS, designer of the Royal Mint of Belgium, in order for her to explain her graphic choices for the Belgian project, project not retained as common desig, for the €2 joined issue. We wish to make you discover the artistic creation of a current engraver of the euro zone. In addition, the MRB (Royal Mint of Belgium) gives us some details at the end...
2021 €3 “STYRACOSAURUS ALBERTENSIS” from Austrian Mint
- August 10, 2021
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- Pierre
They may have looked terrifying but the spikes and horns that protruded from the head of Styracosaurus albertensis were not necessarily used for violent purposes. The subject of the eighth coin in the Supersaurs series had four to six long spikes extending from its neck frill, a smaller horn on each cheek, and a single horn, up to 60 cm long and 15 cm wide, protruding from its nose. The function of those horns has long been the subject of scientific debate.
In the case...
Japan Mint celebrates its 150th birthday with a gold coin and a coinset
- August 06, 2021
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- Pierre
2021 marks the 150th anniversary of Japan Mint. To commemorate the event, Japan Mint will issue a gold coin and a coinset. As usual, most of these products are revserved for japanese numismatic market. Only 1989 gold coins and 682 coinsets will be allowed for international coin market. A ¼ oz. gold coin and a silver coin for the same theme will be released later this year.
Japan Mint was established in Osaka by the Meiji government in order to modernize...
Malta: official ceremony to unveil to the public €2 Heroes of Pandemic 2021
- August 05, 2021
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- Pierre
Last update 08/13/2021 – The Central Bank of Malta is issuing in August, a €2 commemorative coin with the theme ‘Heroes of the Pandemic’. The coin depicts the iconic photograph of two Maltese nurses – Doreen Zammit and Charmaine Cauchi – taken by Diane Faenza, herself a nurse at Mater Dei Hospital. The coin is an initiative undertaken by the Central Bank of Malta in collaboration with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry for Health.
The coin is a tribute...
Get a gold and rhodium grey wolf from Royal Canadian Mint in 2021
- August 03, 2021
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- Pierre
The duality of the wolf is part of what draws us to it, and the yin and the yang of its existence is what this gold- and black rhodium-plated coin conveys. For centuries, the highly intelligent and social species has been feared and unfairly maligned as the villain in children’s stories. Yet it is that same hunting instinct
that makes the elusive wolf an essential part of its ecosystem, where it helps maintain the balance between flora and fauna, predator and prey.
Matte black rhodium...
2021 €2 coin “2024 – The handing-over of the Olympic flag “, by Monnaie de Paris 2021
- July 30, 2021
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- Pierre
The Monnaie de Paris unveiled the second french 2021 €2 commemorative coin. The theme of the first of four coins from “Paris 2024 Summer Olympics” series is “The handing over of the Olympic flag.” The obverse depicts an athlete in the foreground, the Eiffel Tower and an athletics track in the background, with the Paris 2024 Olympic Games logo.
Below is the monogram “RF” of the French Republic and below that the year of issue “2021”. On the left, the mark...