Book on Danish mints in the 19th century
Michael Märcher, Curator at the Coin and medal cabinet of the National museum of Denmark, has published a comprehensive and important work on the Royal mints of Altona and Copenhagen in the 19th century.
Book on Kushan’s coinage
A new book on Kushan’s coinage in the light of recent discoveries and interpretations has been published recently. Vidula Jayaswal has put together a list of contributions by various experts on the topic illuminating many aspects in regard.
Czech Mint issues investment medal series featuring town motifs
In 2011 the Czech Mint issued the first of 24 silver investment medals featuring a town motif. Now the second medal has followed. It is dedicated to the Bohemian town Chomutov. The medal is struck in 1 kilo and 500 grams.
Is inefficient logistics India’s source of coin shortage?
India lacks continuously circulation coins despite higher production quotas. Although there have been various rumours about illegal coin exports, a central problem appears to be much more concrete: lack of infrastructure for distributing properly the minted coins.
Airtime instead of small change
Immaterial airtime seems to be the solution to a vital problem of Zimbabwean economy: the overwhelming, ubiquitous lack of coins and hence of small change.
Commemorative Coins are a Profit Center
When did issuing commemorative coins start and how did it change. Richard Giedroyc tries to give an overview over the past 2.000 years.
Highest turnover in investment products in the history of the Austrian Mint
The Austrian Mint has published its Annual Report of 2011. Those who want to know more about facts and figures can download it from the Internet.
Mint news we are dreaming of …
Press releases are proceeded in different ways according to how they are published. Thus maybe one press release can never satisfy all journalists. Read here what I think that I need, and how I dream the material I receive every day should be in order to represent the mints and companies in a way as they may wish, too.
Survey on IT based exchange and collaboration
The independent firm PixelPromenade is conducting an online survey in order to evaluate the needs of the minting industry for daily IT based bussiness networking. We invite you to participate. We are sure that we all will improve our services thanks to the results.
Definitions – Work in Progress: Electric Conductivity
We are working on an encyclopedia of technical terms used by the coin producing industry. Help us by doing so! Today’s definition is dedicated to the term “electric conductivity”.