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The Austrian Mint has issued a new 20 euro silver coin celebrating world-renowned artist Egon Schiele. The coin is Austria’s contribution to the European Union’s collaborative silver program “Artists” in which 14 countries are participating this year.

Terry Hanlon of Dillon Gage Metals analyses the situation of the gold market. Prices raced high recently but he even expects values higher than during the 2011 peaks in the later part of 2012. Yet $2,000 or 2,100 might be possible according to the expert.

Vladimir Ovtcharov has published a new book on “Archaeometric analysis of Bulgarian Medieval coinage” as volume X in the series “Coinage and Coin Circulation on the Balkans” (CCCB).

Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc., has executed an agreement with the Maritime Heritage Foundation for the financing, archaeological survey and excavation, conservation and exhibit of HMS Victory (sunk in 1744) and artifacts from the shipwreck site.

Following the Palestinian Authority’s September 14 2011 announcement that a post office accompanied by distinctively Palestinian stamps was being established the question regarding if a Palestinian currency system perhaps using both coins and bank notes might also be around the corner.

Projecting future demand for coins and bank notes should be part of the logistical economic considerations planned by any government. Unfortunately for India the demand for “small change” in both mediums continues to outstrip the supply. Richard Giedroyc is composing a picture of the situation for us.

The Central Bank of Solomon Islands (CBSI) announced that the Solomon Islands will replace its current set of circulation coins with attractive new coins in July 2012.

In 2008 Krause Publications invented the People's Choice Award, which is handed to the favorite coin of Internet voters during the Coin of the Year Award ceremony. Since then the Hungarian mint has won each of these awards.

Philip Grierson (1910-2006) was the most important numismatist of his time. One hundred years from his birth, this book presents a number of texts to remember him comprising an almost unknown paper as an example of the Irish sense of the absurd.

Palau issues a new series of rectangular 2 dollar silver coins. You can arrange and combine them deliberately: they always show an exotic idyll of the Southern Sea. The number of combinations will even grow with the following series.