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The brochure containing the programme for the 2nd Coin Conference in Berlin will be available shortly. In the meantime, however, you can download the pdf.

The Island Nation of Palau has issued a teddy coin and Coin Invest Trust has once again managed to do the extraordinary, creating possibly the world’s plushest silver coin by incorporating a small, furry bear into it.

Künker certainly capped off the 2012 auction year on a brilliant high note – realizing a total of 12.3 million EUR in hammer prices on October 30th and 31st. Edergold, Russian gold and the last part of the Hagander collection ensured, indeed, an endless row of highlights.

CurrencyNews has informed us that the Banco de la República de Colombia has issued a new and extended family of coins. The 1,000 Peso has returned after ten years replacing the 1,000 Peso banknote. The new coins are lighter, smaller and have a range of new security features.

Since the middle of 2012 the Danish paper money production and the mint have been merged. Hans Denkov tells us about the reasons for this step.

Olympic medals use a lot of metal but these days the gold medal is mostly silver. The last time the Olympic Games handed out solid gold medals was a hundred years ago at the 1912 Summer Games in Stockholm, Sweden. Here you will find some interesting trivia about Olympic gold!

According to the Norges Bank 2011 Annual Report on Payment Systems Norway and Iceland lead the world in payment card usage. To reduce payment costs the banks are developing services to increase the speed of payment transfers and contactless payments.

Göran Österlund, graphic designer and engraver, has won the Riksbank’s design competition for Sweden’s new banknotes. His entry "Cultural journey” will form the artistic base for the new banknotes, which will probably be introduced in 2015...

A world without graft, bank robberies and theft? Wouldn’t it be great? But at the condition that it would be a world without cash money …? How the use of cash money might change in high tech societies in a digital world we can learn looking at Sweden. And it might be worth observation.

New record hammer price for a Medieval coin at Künker’s: the portrait denarius of Charlemagne, that had been estimated at 30,000 euros, was sold for 160,000 euros. That result was the outright highlight of the spring auction from March 12 to 16 in Osnabrück.