No Mainstream Solution: Estonia Plans to Issue 1-Cent Coins
In a surprise move which goes against the trend, Estonia’s Central Bank announces plans to issue 10 million one-cent coins into circulation. Although the coins are much required in the Baltic country the Central Bank offers also advice on rounding rules.
World Banknote Summit Unveils Programme Innovations
The organisers of the World Banknote Summit 2020 have added both a new discussion format known as a Chatbox and a special printer’s workshop. The World Banknote Summit 2020 is set to take place in Prague, Czech Republic, from 24th to 26th February.
Royal Canadian Mint Honours Métis Leader Louis Riel
The Royal Canadian Mint has issued a silver Special Edition Proof Dollar marking the 175th anniversary of the birth of Métis leader and founder of Manitoba, Louis Riel. It is the first coin to feature Michif, the official language of the Métis Nation.
New Coins and Medals Feature Comic Hero Asterix
60 years after the creation of the very first story around the small Gaul warrior Asterix and his friend Obelix and their dog Idefix, Monnaie de Paris has issued a series of collector coins in silver and gold, and various medals and mini medals dedicated to these popular comic heroes.
Stephen Album Rare Coins
Stephen Album’s e-auction features exactly 750 coins from all areas and time periods with starting prices ranging from $30 to 750 USD.
Roma Numismatics Ltd
Roma Numismatics offers coins from the Hermann Lanz and Dr Nicholas Lowe collections, and numerous very rare specimens as a historically important tetradrachm of Kamnaskires III displaying a previously unrecorded regnal date, and a very rare Probus aureus.
Emporium Hamburg, D-Hamburg
More than 2,900 lots from antiquity to today will be on offer at Emporium Hamburg. Highlights are a very rare 1/2 reichstaler of 1621 from Hersfeld Abbey and a Prussian 10 Mark 1889 A in proof quality.
Ute Wartenberg Resigns as Executive Director of the ANS
On 1 November 2019, Ute Wartenberg-Kagan will resign as executive director of the ANS. She can look back on 20 successful years – within this time she made the ANS become one of the world’s best-known numismatic societies.
Artemide Aste
Artemide Aste offers 865 lots of ancient and world coins and medals. The first day is dedicated to ancient coins, the second to world coins with a focus on Italian and Papal coins and medals.
Nomisma, RSM-Serravalle
Nomisma’s auction 60 is called “500 Rarities” and it comprises indeed many important specimens in exceptional quality like one of the major rarities of the Italian nineteenth century: a 5 Lire coin, minted by Napoleon’s second wife Maria Luigia with a starting price of 250.000,00 euros.