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With “Highway to Hell” CIT Coin Invest AG published the third issue of the AC/DC series. The highlight of the two-dollar silver coin is the colored cover of the AC/DC album of the same name.

Michael Gasvoda of Classical Numismatic Group gives in CNG’s Spring Classical Market Report a review of the state of the classical numismatic market as he sees it. Is Roman gold a buying opportunity or better go for pedigreed Greek coins? Read it here.

The new exhibition at the Monnaie de Paris Museum, is dedicated to an item essential to the circulation of money – the coin purse. The exhibition retraces the history of the purse which, literally, has been carrying coins from antiquity to the present day.

The selection of the name for the post-independence Croatian currency in the early 1990s was surrounded by controversies. In a new special exhibition at the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb, visitors can explore the fascinating history of the country’s coins and banknotes.

“Le Franc” is a collaborative work of French and foreign collectors, researchers and numismatists and contains over 1150 pages of history of French modern numismatics. This project was made possible by the recent digitization of over 100,000 archive pages of the Monnaie de Paris.

Coin dealers and collectors can find the latest information about the CSNS 81st Anniversary Convention here. Clubs and organizations are invited to hold membership meetings in conjunction with the convention and hotel reservations are now accepted.

NGC® has announced significant updates to its NGC mobile app as e.g. the app now incorporates the NGC Registry, a powerful online platform where collectors register and display their NGC-certified coins and compete against other collectors around the world for recognition and prizes.

For the first time a study investigated on what effects the production of coins has on the economy and employment of the European Union. Result: 169,900 people have jobs that are directly or indirectly linked to coin production.

The world renowned Dutch tattoo artist Henk Schiffmacher is celebrating his 40th anniversary in the business. The Royal Dutch Mint is honouring the artist with the Henk Schiffmacher coin, based on his own artistic design.

South Africa’s 25 young years as a constitutional democracy is the subject of the South African Mint Company’s ‘SA25 – Celebrating South Africa’ coin series, which commemorates the rights and freedoms espoused by South Africa’s Constitution.