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The Royal Mint continues the “50 years of the 50p celebration” with the introduction of a set of brilliant uncirculated coins. Among the coins featured in the set is the rarest 50 p coin ever struck: the Kew Gardens 50p of 2009.

On behalf of the British Virgin Islands, Pobjoy Mint has released a golden yellow titanium coin featuring the Porcupine Fish. It continues the mint’s extremely popular series of coins featuring various wildlife and marine life from Overseas Territories.

In a BBC radio programme discussed ‘zombie statistics’, statistics being used to drive propaganda across many fields of interest. Statistics used as a basis of demanding new cultural property laws by German politicians were among those “zombies”.

In an official celebration, Ulrich Künker returned an unpublished specimen of the golden so-called “Alchemistentaler” to the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. The coin had been stolen in 1945. The auction house Künker bore all costs incurred in the restitution of the rare piece.

The new exhibition “The World between Empires” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art looks at the diverse history of cities and people in the ancient Middle East. Also, the sequence of the many rulers in that region is illustrated by a large choice of coins.

The American Numismatic Society has announced the acquisition of the vast archive of research data assembled by United States large cent expert Del Bland, who died in late 2018. Nearly...

The FINT invites you to this year’s Regional Conference of Islamic numismatics in Tübingen. It will take place on May 4th and May 5th at the Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies. The organizers have issued a call for presentations.

The finalists for the 14th round of the IACA Excellence in Currency Awards, sponsored by Currency News, have been announced. The finalists were chosen by a panel of seven industry experts including four former central bankers.

New exhibition ‘Mr Squiggle the Man from the Moon: Celebrating 60 years of Mr Squiggle and his creator Norman Hetherington’ is open to the public at the Royal Australian Mint.

The East India Company Bullion Ltd in partnership with the Treasury of the Government of the Island of Niue have released the third coin as part of their overall series entitled “The Trade Dollar Collection”.