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...
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.
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...
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...
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...