Giesecke & Devrient and Bundesdruckerei establish joint venture
Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) and Bundesdruckerei GmbH have signed a contract to establish a joint venture, operating under the name Veridos GmbH. The partners are bundling their international business with solutions for secure identification, such as passport and ID card systems for governments.
Discovering the hidden treasures of Celts and Romans in Jersey
In 2012 two metal detectorists found the world’s largest hoard of Celtic coins in Jersey. The approximately 70,000 coins are now on display in Jersey’s museum and publicly cleaned in a glass fronted lab.
Numismatics at Burg Castle
Do you have any idea where Burg Castle is located? Near Wuppertal, anyone from Southern Germany might associate nothing but industry with. But Solingen and Wuppertal are situated right in the middle of the Bergisches Land, heart of the once so important Duchy of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.
Database of Royal Library of Belgium goes online
The Coin Cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium digitized a large number of Belgian medals and coins the past few years. Although the work is still far from being finished, some collections are already available for researchers.
Numismata terminates collaboration with Monety Expo Warsaw
Erich Modes, executive director of the company Münzen Modes and organizer of the widely known coin fair NUMISMATA, informs that he has terminated the collaboration with Monety Expo Warsaw, effective immediately.
Chinese Rare Coin Experts Visit Long Beach Expo
More than two dozens of the top rare coin experts from mainland China and Hong Kong attended the Long Beach Coin, Currency, Stamp & Sports Collectible Expo for the first time, June 5 - 7, 2014. The response was enthusiastically positive.
New Finnish coin on Literacy
Mint of Finland released a collector coin in honour of literacy. The Lukuinto theme year of diverse literacies will be celebrated in Finland in the 2014-2015 academic year. The Literacy collector coin is the sixth coin to be released in the Ethical collector coins series.
Wild Horse continues Mongolian Nature series in 2014
Coin Invest Trust continues its Mongolian Nature series by issuing the “Wild Horse”. The new addition to the coin series with the cut-out motifs has been an enormous success just like its predecessor, the “Wolf”. Like the wolf coin, the current edition is available in gilded silver and gold.
Chicago past and present to be highlighted on medal
A medal commemorating the 95th anniversary of the Chicago Coin Club features historic past and present cityscape images of Chicago.
Sicily in full bloom Part 6
A mysterious people, a small island off the coast of Sicily, a gloriously sunny day, those are the perfect ingredients for our little excursion to Motya, one of the few exclusively Carthaginian settlements that have been excavated until today.