CoinsWeekly offers a new service, its download area
CoinsWeekly does not only exist in a digital form. At random intervals, it publishes a printed MünzenWoche Spezial / CoinsWeekly Special Edition. As of now, you can download this and other print media edited by Ursula Kampmann in the new download area for free.
Coin makeover: a venerable tradition…
Utilizing a sovereign coin to express one’s not so sovereign opinion is a venerable tradition. Reinterpreting coin motifs by engraving can be highly creative. This is how Shaun Hughes creates modern art.
Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven
Beginning around the year 1000, Jerusalem attained unprecedented significance. An exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art running until January 8, 2017 demonstrates the key role that the Holy City played in shaping the art of this period.
Byzantine Coinage in the Carpathian-Nistrian Regions
Two years ago Sergiu Musteata, historian from Republic of Moldova, published a monograph on the Byzantine coinage in the Carpathian-Nistrian regions – but only in Romanian and in few copies. Now an international edition aims at a wider readership.
Norway’s new banknotes
On 22 November 2016, Norway’s new banknotes were on public display for the first time. The first denominations will be put into circulation in summer 2017. The banknotes feature a common theme instead of portraits.
The Royal Mint and CME Group to Launch Royal Mint Gold
The Royal Mint and CME Group announced a collaboration to transform the way that market participants can trade gold building and launching a digitised gold offering called Royal Mint Gold.
Tamdakht Meteorite Strike
On December 20, 2008, at 10:37 pm local time, a meteorite hit the earth north of Tamdakht in Morocco. For the Cook Islands, Coin Invest Trust has designed the “Tamdakht Meteorite Strike”, a coin whose intentional overstrike lets the surface appear like a crater.
Treasures of the Gupta Empire
Sanjeev Kumar is an independent researcher and numismatist who has spent an entire lifetime studying the history and coinage of the Gupta Empire. He has now published a monograph on the entire coinage of the Gupta Dynasty and the related dynasties of Bengal.
Is the Geneva Coin Cabinet facing its closure?
The governing body of the city of Geneva has decided to send the curator of the Geneva Coin Cabinet into early retirement. Does it plan to save costs by letting this one-of-a-kind collection be looked after by a research assistant?
Minting of new 5-euro polymer coin has begun
Following the great success of the first coin “Planet Earth” equipped with a blue polymer ring, the German Federal Ministry of Finance decided to issue a five-part coin edition “Climate Zones of the Earth”. On Monday, the first coin was minted in Karlsruhe.