Latest News

Alex Sadler

4 April 2024

4 min read

Brazilian Mint Celebrates Three Anniversaries

The Casa da Moeda do Brasil celebrated its 330th anniversary earlier this month with the launch of a commemorative medal featuring augmented reality (AR) technology. The medal is available in either bronze or silver and features invisible ink in addition to the AR technology.

Commemorative Coins Mints Technology

Alex Sadler

4 April 2024

2 min read

Latest News from Down Under

The Perth Mint has announced two new partnerships during the month of March, with the first relating to the Mint Directors Association (MDA), and the second to numismatic platform Coiniverse.

Circulating Coins Mints News

David Tidmarsh

4 April 2024

10 min read

World Money Fair Technical Forum 2024 Review – Part 1

The World Money Fair Technical Forum celebrated its 20th anniversary this year, just two years after the main event commemorated its half-centennial, having been established in 1972. In this month’s issue of Coin & Mint News™, we review the first five papers from the Technical Forum, with subsequent issues to cover the remainder.

Events Technology

John Winchcombe

4 April 2024

4 min read

MDA Talks ESG

Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting is rapidly becoming a normal part of organisational life. In this context the Mint Directors Association (MDA) organised a webinar on 13 March to hear from three practitioners about their experience in this area.

Associations Sustainability

Alex Sadler

5 March 2024

1 min read

Focusing on Sustainability – Insights from the Industry

The Mint Directors Association’s Sustainability Group has announced a webinar focusing on ‘ESG Reporting – Insights from Within the Industry’, scheduled to be held on Wednesday 13 March at 10:00 and 16:00 GMT.

Events Sustainability

Alex Sadler

5 March 2024

3 min read

Special Relationship Unites Britannia and Liberty

The Royal Mint has partnered with the United States Mint in ‘a groundbreaking collaboration’ between the Chief Engravers of both mints to produce a design for the 2024 Britannia and Liberty commemorative coins.

Mints Numismatics

Alex Sadler

5 March 2024

5 min read

Eesti Pank Plans for the Year Ahead

The central bank of Estonia, Eesti Pank, ended last year with an announcement that its Omniva coin collection campaign would continue into 2024. Although the programme had only been running for three months (as of December 2023), it had already collected around 3.3 million coins – 65% of which were 1 and 2 cent coins.

Central Bank

Alex Sadler

5 March 2024

3 min read

Royal Canadian Mint Reaches New Heights for the New Year

The Royal Canadian Mint has released several coins in varying designs and denominations to commemorate the Year of the Dragon. Amongst these are a 1kg gold coin with an extremely limited mintage and a pair of silver and gold coins featuring Extraordinarily High Relief.

Minting Technology

Alex Sadler

5 March 2024

2 min read

Paris Olympic and Paralympic Medals Unveiled

The Paris 2024 Organising Committee has unveiled the medals for the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Monnaie de Paris has been charged with production of the medals, exactly a century after the previous Parisian Games in 1924.

Metals Minting

Alex Sadler

5 March 2024

2 min read

Poland Flies to the Future with UFO Coin

The Mint of Poland has opened this year with the release of the ‘world’s first flying coin’. Unveiled at the recent World Money Fair Technical Forum in Berlin, it floats in the air via a motor hidden inside the coin itself.

Minting Technical Features

Alex Sadler

5 March 2024

1 min read

Call for Papers Open for The Coin Conference 2024

The dates have been announced for The Coin Conference 2024, which will take place 28-30 October in Lisbon, Portugal.

Events

David Tidmarsh

5 March 2024

4 min read

Demand for US Circulating Coins Falls in 2023

In its recently published Annual Report for the 2023 fiscal year, the United States Mint reported a 12.1% fall in revenue to $4.68 billion. In volume terms, the Mint shipped 10.5 billion circulation coins to the Federal Reserve Bank compared with 12.1 billion in 2022, a decrease of 1.6 billion coins (-13.2%).

Mints Studies, Reports

Xiu Ding Chen

5 March 2024

4 min read

Gifting Money for the New Year

Many societies have a long-standing tradition of gifting money (banknotes and coins) to mark auspicious occasions – births and birthdays, weddings and other special events, where the value of the gift is as much social as it is financial.

Cash Cycle Editorial

Alex Sadler

5 March 2024

8 min read

News in Brief

Swiss-based Numisstaxx has launched as a new platform for the digitisation of coin collecting, providing users with the ability to digitalise and share coins easily online.

News

Alex Sadler

5 March 2024

2 min read

MDC Awards Neatly Package Numismatic Designs

Held last October during the Gala Dinner at MDC 2023 in Ottawa, Canada, the MDC Awards paid tribute to a sometimes-underrepresented part of coin design when it comes to awards, namely ‘Best Packaging (of a collectible coin)’.

Events

Alex Sadler

5 March 2024

6 min read

New Coin Issues

The Royal Dutch Mint has launched its latest ‘good-cause’ coin issue, in collaboration with the Dutch Hartstichting (Heart) Foundation.

Circulating Coins Commemorative Coins News

Alex Sadler

5 March 2024

2 min read

Australian Mint Turns to New Platform for Online Sales

The Royal Australian Mint has teamed up with EQL, the commerce platform built to ensure reliable and fair product launches, to improve its e-commerce infrastructure and the experience for collectors as they aim to get their hands on new coins.

Mints Technology

Alex Sadler

5 March 2024

2 min read

China Celebrates the Year of the Dragon

The People’s Bank of China has issued a series of commemorative coins to celebrate 2024’s Lunar Year of the Long (Chinese Dragon), which began on 10 February. Comprised of one gold coin, one silver coin, and one bi-metallic copper alloy coin, the set is all legal tender.

Commemorative Coins

Alex Sadler

6 Feb. 2024

4 min read

First Coin of 2024 is Out of This World

The Royal Australian Mint has collaborated with the Australian Space Agency to mint the world’s first coin of 2024, which pays homage to the country’s space exploration history.

Commemorative Coins

Alex Sadler

6 Feb. 2024

3 min read

People in the News

A few recent personnel updates from The Royal Mint, Monnaie de Paris, Mint Directors Association, and Bavarian State Mint.

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