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Alex Sadler

1 June 2026

2 min read

IMD-TC Updates Guidelines for Plated and Clad Coins

The International Mint Directors’ Technical Committee (IMD-TC) has published updated guidelines regarding quality assurance for circulation coins, with particular focus on characteristic features of plated and clad blanks and coins. The guidelines aim to provide national authorities with support for tenders and even give mints guidelines for quality control of the blanks supplied before the minting process.

Minting Technical Features

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.

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Alex Sadler

4 March 2025

3 min read

Technical News Update

Germania Mint unveiled a new special release coin for the recent World Money Fair, featuring Black Light Colours technology. The 2025 Germania Black Silver WMF Edition coin utilises the Mint’s Black Light Colours – a technology born from anti-counterfeiting security – to showcase vibrant hidden colours when held under UV light.

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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.

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Alex Sadler

3 Sept. 2023

3 min read

IQ Structures Expands IQ Mint Offering

Earlier this year, IQ Structures, a Czech specialist in optical nanostructures, launched IQ Mint, a technological solution for anti-counterfeit protection and the visual enhancement of precious metal objects, such as coins, medals and investment bars.

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Alex Sadler

27 Jan. 2022

5 min read

Making Money with Holographic Coins

The use of surface relief holograms to create striking visual effects on coins is not necessarily a new technology, but one that is a challenge for circulating coins because of durability.

Technical Features

Astrid Mitchell

27 Jan. 2022

4 min read

Colombian Mint Award for Innovative Solution to Coin Machining

The Colombian Mint (Fábrica de Moneda) has received an award from the Colombian government for technical innovation, in recognition of the development of a new technique that enabled the continuing production of the country’s two highest denomination coins, despite the breakdown of a key piece of machinery just before the pandemic struck that prevented it being repaired.

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IMD-TC Updates Guidelines for Plated and Clad Coins

Innovative New Features for Commemoratives

Technical News Update

Poland Flies to the Future with UFO Coin

IQ Structures Expands IQ Mint Offering

Making Money with Holographic Coins

Colombian Mint Award for Innovative Solution to Coin Machining

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