The International Coin Design Competition – Winners 2009
Every year Japan Mint holds the International Coin Design Competition (ICDC) with the objective of encouraging creativity and enhancing the artistry of coin designs. Now the winners of 2009 have been elected...
Coin collecting in Hesse
The Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts has its own reading of how German laws apply. Coin collector Alexander Krombach can vouch for that who had to fight for the return of his coin collection although the action for receiving stolen goods was abandoned...
The other way round – an Internet site becomes a museum
The history of coins and currencies is not the focus of the MoneyMuseum, but an expedient. This very new museum wants to encourage its visitors to think about their own relationship to money...
Swiss gold coin to commemorate Anker Year 2010
The Federal Mint Swissmint is taking the commemorative year for Albert Anker as the occasion to salute the famous Swiss artist with the official 2010 gold coin...
Dr. Pierre Bastien (1912-2010)
With Pierre Bastien the numismatic society looses one of the profoundest experts on Late Roman coinage...
New Royal Australian Mint CEO
Mr. Ross MacDiarmid has commenced his position at the mint on June 7, 2010...
Morton & Eden
It takes a certain amount of courage to face a fast bowler on the cricket pitch but in the history of the game, only one man has received a medal for bravery on the field of play...
Nefertiti will stay in Berlin
The Federal Government informs in its press release no. 180 from May 19th, 2010, about the fate of “Nefertiti”...
Austrian 50 Euro Coin in Honor of Baron Clemens von Pirquet
The commemorative series in gold “Celebrated Physicians of Austria” concludes with a coin for the renowned Viennese doctor, Clemens von Pirquet (1874-1929)...
IOC Honorary member Professor Walther Tröger receives World Money Fair Award 2010
Prof. Walther Tröger has been awarded during the 15th World Olympic Collectors’ Fair at the German Sport and Olympic Museum Cologne with the prestigious World Money Fair award...