Dealers should be on the look out for a subject selling counterfeit coins. The suspect is selling counterfeit modern coins in original packaging, including capsules and COA’s according to an Oklahoma dealer.

For more than 1,000 years the Lagoon City Venice has struck coins. Now, Eupremio Montenegro has published an enormous catalogue comprising all Venetian issues with their respective market value.

Until October 27, 2013 the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art displays objects from academic collections of the Faculty of Historical and Cultural Studies of Vienna University. ‘Academic Objects? – Paths to Knowledge’ illustrate how research works in real life.

Philologist, numismatist and cartoonist Claire Franklin provides insight into her daily thoughts. Recently, one river bend ahead …

It started in 1999, when Dr Jürg Conzett published his coin collection on the Internet. How the MoneyMuseum has developed during the last years is the focus of this article.

The MoneyMuseum is selling some of the precious items from its collection. The money raised won’t be going to ongoing maintenance, however, but rather to financing an innovative new project: The MoneyMuseum will be presenting podcasts on iTunes University on topics from the world of money.

Giesecke & Devrient is to provide a mobile payment solution that allows their customers with prepaid accounts to top up their credit directly on their cellphone using PayPal. O2 customers in Germany are now able to use their NFC-enabled smartphones to make contactless payments in all participating shops around the world.

It should not be taken for granted that citizens understand a new monetary system after a currency devaluation. Richard Giedroyc reports experiences from Zambia.

Recently we reported that the National Bank of Poland planned to eliminate the smallest coins with the face value of 1 and 2 grosz due to the high production costs. After strong retailers’ resistance, though, the Ministry of Finance decided to not scrap the small coins.

Mint of Finland has recently presented CoinTune, their approach to metal coin authentication. CoinTune combines fundamental physics and advanced digital technologies increasing hence the number of reliable security features detected in coins.