2020 Austrian €20 SILVER COIN “CENTENARY OF THE SALZBURG FESTIVAL”

2020 Austrian €20 SILVER COIN “CENTENARY OF THE SALZBURG FESTIVAL”

To celebrate this major cultural event, austrian mint intend to create a particularly innovative coin design. The coin’s obverse has the appearance of a plate with a flat inner part. This type of coin has never been minted before by the Austrian Mint. It is an austrian Mint Premiere.

Minted to a maximum of 30,000 pieces in Proof quality only, each 20 euro silver coin (925 Ag, 2/3 ounce) comes in an attractive case with a numbered certificate of authenticity.

 

 

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2019 Jaap EDEN commemorative coins from the Netherlands

2019 Jaap EDEN commemorative coins from the Netherlands

Artist Wineke Gartz is the designer of the Jaap Eden commemorative coin. The Netherlands are proud of their skating champions. That certainly applies to Jaap Eden. On the ice rink next to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the current museum square, he became world champion on January 14th in 1893. He could not have imagined that, at only 19 years old, he would stand at the beginning of a long tradition which has become part of dutch identity.

Jaap Eden was not...

C. LAGARDE head of the ECB: a new signature on euro banknotes

C. LAGARDE head of the ECB: a new signature on euro banknotes

Mrs Christine LAGARDE was appointed Governor of the ECB in July 2019.

After Win DUISENBERG, Jean Claude TRICHET and Mario DRAGHI, Mrs LAGARDE is the fourth Governor of the European Central Bank (ECB), since its creation and the first woman in this position.

For numismatists, this news is important as it will lead to the appearance of a new signature on euro banknotes.

 

C. LAGARDE, new ECB governor and first woman in this position

 

As a reminder, the signatures of the ECB...

Swissmint issues a 20 francs commemorative coin “Roger Federer”

Swissmint issues a 20 francs commemorative coin “Roger Federer”

For the first time in its history, Swissmint is dedicating a Swiss commemorative coin to a living person: Roger Federer. As well as being probably Switzerland’s most successful individual sportsman, he is also the perfect ambassador for Switzerland.
That is reason enough for Swissmint to honour Roger Federer with a 20-franc silver coin. The date of issue is 23 January 2020, and the pre-sale (uncirculated quality) begins on 2 December 2019. This will be followed by the release of a “Roger Federer” gold coin in...

2019 New Great Engravers coins series of Royal Mint

2019 New Great Engravers coins series of Royal Mint

The Royal Mint has launched its largest coins to date with the introduction of five kilo-and two-kilo coins as part of a new Great Engravers series.

Celebrating the finest artists who have worked on the British coinage, the series begins with Royal Academician William Wyon’s Una and the Lion design.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coins of this size allow scope for the stunning detail of William Wyon’s original Una and the Lion design to be fully appreciated. The five-kilo is the largest coin that The Royal...

Edmond Emile LINDAUER, a prolific engraver and artist

Edmond Emile LINDAUER, a prolific engraver and artist

In modern French numismatics, the name Edmond LINDAUER is known for the 5, 10 and 25 centimes coins that were minted and circulated under the Third Republic. But he has designed many other coins and medals, often unsigned, or even signed by others.

The GUILLET ARCANE 17 Gallery pays tribute to this great engraver through an exhibition that will take place from December 06, 2019 to December 13, 2019. It celebrates the 150th anniversary of the engraver Emile Lindauer ‘s birth...

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