Royal Mint Experience welcomes its 200.000th visitor
The successful Royal Mint Experience factory tour recently welcomed its 200,000th visitor. The lucky lady from Wolverhampton received a golden hello from the venue’s staff. The Royal Mint Experience offers exciting tours and events for coin enthusiasts from all over the world.
Pobjoy Releases Coin Featuring Boaty McBoatface
The Pobjoy Mint has released a 50p colored coin in cupro nickel diamond finish. It shows the British AUV Boaty McBoatface submerged in the Antarctic Ocean with the research ship RRS James Clark Ross shown above.
Sun Sets on Royal Australian Mint’s Golden Kangaroo
For the past 11 years, the Royal Australian Mint has held an annual ballot for the iconic Kangaroo at Sunset $25 Gold Proof Coin, with this year marking the coin’s final release. It has been one of the mint’s signature designs.
From the Ming Dynasty to Albrecht Dürer
The HVB Foundation Banknote Collection is one of the world’s finest collection of paper bills with over 300,000 banknotes from all over the world. Find out more about the foundation’s objectives and how it works to make the bills publicly accessible..
La Catrina Skull
CIT Coin Invest AG has presented the third motif of its popular Skull series. This time, the skull picks up on the affectionate care the dead are honored with on the Día de Muertos in Mexico. The minted miniature sculptures have been issued in silver and gold.
The Royal Mint Reveals a Monster of a Coin
The Royal Mint is celebrating the 200th anniversary since the publication of Mary Shelley’s novel, The Modern Prometheus, with the launch of a £2 commemorative Frankenstein coin in various finishes. Mary Shelley’s novel has become a classic of modern literature.
How Halloween Became Successful in the German-Speaking World
One of the most popular series of the Liechtenstein-based CIT Coin Invest Ltd. is called “Skulls”. Why is such a dark series so successful? When did “feel-good horror” become a part of everyday life which even found its way into numismatics?
ANS Acquires Archives of Medallic Art Company
The American Numismatic Society has announced the acquisition of the archives of the Medallic Art Company, one of America’s oldest and most important private mints. The ANS has set up a committee who will review ways of dealing with the sheer mass of material.
The Most Expensive Greek Coin
We cannot do CoinsWeekly Coin Records without acknowledging the most expensive Greek coin! The famous piece sold for more 2 million Swiss francs.
The Treasure of Thun, Found in 1955
The Swiss Inventory of Coin Finds has published Volume 15 of its monographic series. It focuses on the find discovered in Thun in 1955. It contains 2,304 Roman coins, the most recent coins dating back to AD 293. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at it.