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During the Covid-19 pandemic media and health minsters advise against the use of cash as unhygienic. A new research report on how cash is currently being discussed in the media helps central banks answer apprehensions concerning cash as a germ carrier.

The commemorative coin "Cat’s Mill" dedicated to the literary work of the Latvian poet, prose-writer and politician Kārlis Skalbe has been voted Latvia’s Coin of the Year 2019 in the traditional public vote.

On 31 March Greece has issued a 2 euro coin dedicated to the Battle of Thermopylae 2,500 years ago. The coin features a Greek helmet to remember the encounter between Greeks and Persians.

On March 30, 2020, the author and professional numismatist Eldert Bontekoe died. In 1982, he began building his company that was to become worldwide known: Pegasi Numismatics. We re-publish his online obituary.

Although the corona pandemia afflicts the coin trade, the coin market seems to remain fairly resilient according to Kent Ponterio. He thinks that some aspects of the market may even have become stronger. Read his analysis of the current market situation here.

In the 1990s coin dealer Allen G. Berman declared himself king of the fictive country Bermania. As Alanus I, since then, he has given many lectures on his jovial kingdom to members of the Bermanian Guild of Numismatists. Now a book gathers a selection of them.

Only now it became known that Swedish coin dealer Berndt Ahlström died at the age of 83 last December 2019. He founded auction house Ahlström in Stockholm in the 1950s and was owner of the Geneva Galerie des Monnaies.

Are you also requested not to pay in cash if possible when you’re grocery shopping? Due to the coronavirus. Some countries are already cleaning their circulation money. But can the coronavirus actually be transmitted via coins and banknotes?

Giesecke+Devrient reports record results for the past fiscal year. The Munich-based group specializing in security technology has seen significant increases particularly from the business in digital products and services.

The South African Mint introduced the ‘South African Inventions’ theme in 2016. In 2020, another South African innovation stands out on their newest commemorative coin: the Retinal Cryoprobe, invented by Dr Selig Percy Amoils in 1965.