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The 49th World Money Fair took place in Berlin from 31 January to 2 February 2020. Japan was the guest of honour. Here you find photographic impressions of the fair and the events.
Thursday, 30 January 2020
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On Thursday, Künker’s Berlin Auction Sale opened the fair. The result of the 1,077 lots amounted to €10 million. The most expensive coin was a 10fold ducat of Frederick of the Palatinate, minted in 1620 in Prague.

Regarding contemporary numismatics, the World Money Fair started with the Technical Forum at 1:30 p.m. More than 400 participants attended 14 presentations on technical subjects.

Already when setting up the stand, the team of the Japan Mint, the guest of honour, lives up to the nickname of their homeland “land of smile”.

On Thursday, when there were no visitors, one had the chance to get very close to the Japanese exhibits without any glass separating you from them.

For its booth, the Bank of Greece had brought a reconstruction of an ancient girl named Myrtis to the fair, which will decorate a 5 euro coin in 2020.
Friday, 31 January 2020
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The fair opens. Happy faces at the Peus booth, where the 150th anniversary of the company’s foundation is celebrated in 2020.

The team of the Swissmint booth is preparing for a big rush: the purchasing right of the world’s smallest coin was to be raffled! To the left: Jürg Richter of the Swiss Auction House Sincona.

On the occasion of the World Money Fair, the Mint of Belgium issued 500 coin sets “Belgian fries”. Many potential buyers were queuing up to get them!

The Official Sales Agency for Collector’s Coins surprised with a new name. Might it be possible that the geographical proximity to Austria at the WMF inspired them? “Münze Deutschland” and “Münze Österreich” aren’t that different after all.

Johannes Beermann, Board Member of the Deutsche Bundesbank, gave a speech on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the taler, an event organised by the two dealers’ associations of Germany.

The Romanian Mint celebrates an anniversary in 2020, too. It was founded 150 years ago. Ursula Kampmann visited the splendidly decorated booth. Chief Engineer Dan Paunescu gave her a warm welcome.

The Romanian Mint can be proud of its high relief medals. And the team presented them beautifully in a lovely decorated booth.

Speaking of high relief. CIT presented the new version of smartminting at their redesigned booth. From now on, the spectacular relief can also be achieved with other kinds of metal – and that’s only one of the new features.

Here we see two employees of CIT with the Mongolian ambassador. Mongolia has been collaborating with CIT for many years in the field of commemorative issues, and some Mongolian coins have already been awarded numismatic prizes.

In the evening, the gala dinner took place, and Japan, the guest of honour, wasn’t the only one at the centre of attention. Ross MacDiarmid, head of the Royal Australian Mint and secretary of the Mint Directors Conference received the WMF Award for his numismatic achievements. Photo: Michael Alexander.
Saturday, 1 February 2020 / Sunday, 2 February 2020
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The booth of the Japan Mint – there was rarely the opportunity to take a picture of it without crowds of visitors.

Latvia was extremely proud of the fact that the Latvian coin on the subject of honey was named Coin of the Year.
In 2021, the World Money Fair will take place from 29 to 31 January. China will be the guest of honour.
All photos except those where a photographer is mentioned: © UK.
Here you can access the website of the World Money Fair.