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Voting is now open for the People’s Choice Coin of the Year Awards, sponsored by Krause Publications and NumisMaster.com. Everybody is invited to participate and give his or her vote!

The Jewish-American Hall of Fame issues a medal in honor of Nobel Prize in Medicine winner Gertrude Elion. Elion was only the fifth female Nobel laureate in Medicine, the ninth in science in general...

Krause Publications has announced the nominees for the 2012 Coin of the Year awards. The awards honor the best in coin design and manufacturing from around the world and will be presented during a ceremony taking place at the World Money Fair in Berlin...

During the autumn auction at Künker’s Part two of the Hagander collection was liquidated in Osnabrück. A total of 12 million Euros hammer price for roughly 8000 lots has been reached...

The inaugural Coin Conference, held from May 31 to June 1, 2011 in London, was the first event of its kind to focus on the challenges and issues faced by circulating coins in the context of countries’ currency management strategies...

Why issued Emperor Ferdinand III a gold medallion on his son’s coronation to King of Hungary and Bohemia only ten years later? This numismatic question leads us in the middle of the bloody Thirty Years’ War and to Wallenstein.

Is the end of 50-øre pieces in Norway approaching?

In July the Polish mint starts a new coin series named “Great Battles”...

Production of Estonian euro coins has started at Mint of Finland. Find here pictures of the Estonian Euro, to which the country will switch at the beginning of 2011...

Countless coins from the Holy Roman Empire show something many catalogs briefly address as “neck chain” of the Order of the Golden Fleece. This article will explain, when and where this chivalric order originated and why it became the most important order of knights all over the Old World...