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Alex Sadler

1 Dec. 2025

4 min read

UK Sovereign Returns to Gold

The Royal Mint has launched its 2026 Sovereign Collection, offering more advanced security features and a return to the classic yellow gold colouring.

Metals Numismatics

Alex Sadler

31 Aug. 2025

3 min read

The Revival of a Classic, Launch of Laser-Engraving

During the World’s Fair of Money, MKS PAMP Group announced the return of the Engelhard brand to the market with a new generation of faithfully recreated precious metals products. The United States Mint also unveiled a new release in line with the event, its first laser-engraved coin.

Free Numismatics Free

Alex Sadler

1 July 2025

2 min read

Monnaie de Paris Goes for Gold

Monnaie de Paris has announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously approved the launch of a new bullion project, with the metal-investment offer providing both French and international collectors with the ability to acquire coins sold for their weight in fine gold.

Mints Numismatics

Chander S Jeena

22 June 2025

3 min read

Innovative New Features for Commemoratives

The Royal Mint has unveiled a ground-breaking addition to its bullion portfolio with the launch of the new secure Britannia bullion bar. Security features previously exclusive to its world-renowned coins have been rolled out into its gold bar range for the first time.

Authentication Free Numismatics Free

Alex Sadler

27 May 2025

4 min read

ABC Enhances Traceability, Launches New Astral Collection

ABC Refinery has announced its adoption of the ProvCheck app, allowing customers to authenticate the provenance of its ABC Bullion gold bars. Currently compatible with numbered 1kg ABC Bullion gold bars, the app enables customers to scan their bars and unlock the mine-to-market history of the product, including the gold’s origin and attributable carbon emissions.

Authentication Numismatics

Alex Sadler

27 May 2025

2 min read

Kazakhstan Offers Phygital Gold

The National Bank of Kazakhstan has launched a new digital coin, backed by unallocated and certified physical gold. Those interested can purchase, and then sell, the digital gold coin via a mobile application called ‘Tabys’. Investors are also able to gift coins to another investor using the app.

Central Bank Numismatics

Alex Sadler

24 April 2025

7 min read

Appealing to a New Generation of Coin Collectors

The Mint Directors Association (MDA) held a webinar last month titled ‘Change For Coins: How to Harness the Passion of a New Generation of Collectors’, which focused on collectibles and leveraging product launches to grow brand loyalty and optimise commercial opportunities.

Events Numismatics

Alex Sadler

4 March 2025

1 min read

How to Harness the Passion of a New Generation of Collectors

‘Change For Coins: How to Harness the Passion of a New Generation of Collectors’ is the title of the Mint Directors Association’s upcoming webinar focusing on collectibles and leveraging product launches to grow brand loyalty and optimise commercial opportunities.

Events Numismatics

Alex Sadler

30 Jan. 2025

9 min read

Sigma Metalytics: Generating Trust in Precious Metals Investments

Interest in precious metals investments continues to grow – attributed in part to investors, both experienced and novel, turning to these products as a safe and secure method of investment. Authenticity and trust generation are particularly important to Sigma Metalytics, a family owned and operated business based in California, USA, that offers precious metal verifiers to individuals and mints alike.

Interviews Numismatics Technology

Alex Sadler

4 June 2024

3 min read

Numismatics Platform Continues Expansion

Coin collecting platform Coiniverse enabled purchasing ability on its mobile application at the end of March, following this with an announcement that the first coins sold out within 72 hours.

Numismatics

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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 Oct. 2023

4 min read

News in Brief

The Bank of Estonia (Eesti Pank) has launched a coin collection campaign in collaboration with Estonian-based postal service and logistics company Omniva. The campaign aims to collect one million coins through a pilot programme whereby people can exchange their accumulated coins in selected post offices.

Cash in Circulation News Numismatics

Alex Sadler

5 Oct. 2023

1 min read

Crown Coin Commemorates Late Queen Elizabeth II

The East India Company has produced ‘The Crown Coin’, one of the most expensive coins ever produced, to commemorate the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Numismatics

Alex Sadler

5 Oct. 2023

8 min read

Coiniverse Aims to Connect Every Collector

As announced last month, Coiniverse, the coin collecting app set up by the Mint of Finland, has been spun out into an independent startup. Coin & Mint News™ spoke to its new CEO, Mikko Sievänen, about the new company’s plans for development, the role of digitisation in the coin sector, and where he sees both numismatics and Coiniverse in the future.

Interviews Numismatics

Alex Sadler

3 Sept. 2023

2 min read

Coiniverse Becomes Independent Startup

Coiniverse, the coin collecting app set up by the Mint of Finland, has been spun off from the Mint into an independent startup. As an independent startup, the company aims to increase its user base across the globe and create a trusted collector community where mints are readily accessible.

Companies Numismatics

Alex Sadler

3 Aug. 2023

2 min read

Controversy in the World of Bullion

By its very nature, bullion is a valuable and more expensive commodity than standard commemorative coins comprised of nickel, copper or zinc, for example. This can lead to greater scrutiny of the items produced and their provenance.

Metals Numismatics

Alex Sadler

6 June 2023

3 min read

First Maundy Money for the New King

On 6 April, the soon to be crowned King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla participated in a centuries old British ceremony that traditionally takes place on the Thursday before Easter Sunday, Maundy Thursday.

Numismatics

Alex Sadler

29 Nov. 2022

2 min read

Coiniverse Continues to Expand

Coiniverse, the mobile app platform developed by the Mint of Finland and now adopted by several mints around the world in association with the collector community, has announced the addition of its newest member mint, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato (IPZS) – the Italian Mint.

Mints Numismatics

Alex Sadler

27 Jan. 2022

5 min read

Coiniverse – an App to Appeal to the Next Generation of Coin Collectors

Circulation coins may be facing something of a decline, but the collectors (numismatics) market is booming. A couple of years ago, the market was valued at approximately $17.6 billion annually.

Mints Numismatics

Astrid Mitchell

28 Oct. 2021

2 min read

Smiley’s People – RDM Issues 1st Not for Profit Coin for Charity

The Royal Dutch Mint (RDM) is the latest mint to create a not-for-profit coin for charitable purposes, designing an exclusive coin in collaboration with the Smiley Movement. For every coin sold, it will donate a food box to the Foodbank Amsterdam at Christmas.

Mints Numismatics

Latest News

UK Sovereign Returns to Gold

The Revival of a Classic, Launch of Laser-Engraving

Monnaie de Paris Goes for Gold

Innovative New Features for Commemoratives

ABC Enhances Traceability, Launches New Astral Collection

Kazakhstan Offers Phygital Gold

Appealing to a New Generation of Coin Collectors

How to Harness the Passion of a New Generation of Collectors

Sigma Metalytics: Generating Trust in Precious Metals Investments

Numismatics Platform Continues Expansion

Special Relationship Unites Britannia and Liberty

News in Brief

Crown Coin Commemorates Late Queen Elizabeth II

Coiniverse Aims to Connect Every Collector

Coiniverse Becomes Independent Startup

Controversy in the World of Bullion

First Maundy Money for the New King

Coiniverse Continues to Expand

Coiniverse – an App to Appeal to the Next Generation of Coin Collectors

Smiley’s People – RDM Issues 1st Not for Profit Coin for Charity

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