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Ireland may soon be joining Finland and the Netherlands in dispensing with 1 and 2 euro cent coins, if a current two month ‘rounding’ trial involving more than 240 businesses in the Irish town of Wexford proves a success.

The future of 1- and 2-euro cent coins is open according to a EU Commission press release. However, in contrary to the worldwide trend of abolishing the smallest coins due to high production costs Switzerland decided to keep the coin with the lowest face value.

In 2007 Washington imposed draconian import restrictions on ordinary coins creating thus massive problems for coin collectors. The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild has filed a ‘test case’ and applied to the United States Supreme Court.

India is facing an urgent shortage of small denominations. Retailers pay a heavy premium to money changers when providing themselves with change. Now a private syndicate issues its own money.

Can You Spot the Errors in Everyday Coins? This book is a clear and simple guide to prepare any collector or treasure hunter to spot rare coins the average consumer normally would never notice...

Do you know, why there were money changers in the Temple of Jerusalem and how much they did earn? No, you don’t? Well, then you should read the article of David Hendin on this very special detail of every day’s life in the ancient Holy Land...

For the participating states, Euro coins are a great way of transporting their self-image to the outside world – to their citizens, handling small change on a daily basis, and to their visitors, taking the change back home after a holiday. Today we’re looking at Monaco and how it presents itself on its coins.

It is not a law of nature that the production of coins must be in the hands of the state. The private Birmingham Mint was the world’s leading supplier of small change in the 19th cent. It went bankrupt, when, in 2001, the Royal Mint cancelled a secret contract.

To remedy the small change shortage, Zimbabwe issued the so-called bond coins. So far, the approach has proven ineffective. That may be due to the fact that the Reserve Bank does not bring it home to the people what bond coins actually are.

In Part 4 of its extraordinary British Collection, SINCONA will be presenting several extremely rare patterns, some of which are the best-preserved specimens available on the market. In this article, we tell their story.