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Mar 21, 2022, 08:45 AM
Pobjoy continues British Virgin Islands’ $1 series
The latest Tall Ships dollar coin for British Virgin Islands from the Pobjoy Mint features the HMS "Nymph," which served the British Royal Navy in the 18th century and sank in the harbor of the Islands' capital. -
Mar 14, 2022, 09:14 AM
Pearl Black Finish offered for tribute coins
A unique practice offered by Pobjoy Mint allows for production of "Peral Black" finish applied to coins with Morgan and Peace tribute coins set to get the stunning treatment. -
Mar 13, 2022, 11:00 AM
Rare Irish pattern penny from 1927 stars in London auction
A pattern that served for Ireland's first coinage in the 1920s was offered in a Dix Noonan Webb auction in London with the penny bringing £17,360 with the buyer's fee. -
Mar 8, 2022, 14:00 PM
Hungary releases coins highlighting role of researchers
Two Hungarian researchers played an important role in the development of vaccines used in combatting the global pandemic and their work is being honored on two commemorative coins. -
Mar 3, 2022, 15:44 PM
Wildman taler in Künker auction of Brunswick Collection
Fritz Rudolf Künker’s March 21 auction of coins and medals from Brunswick will include a 1605 "Wildman taler" depicting a mythological creature, with an estimate equivalent to $2,216 U.S. -
Mar 3, 2022, 10:30 AM
Royal Mint continues Tudor Beasts series
The second coin in the Royal Mint’s new Royal Tudor Beasts series of bullion and collector coins will feature the Lion of England in a variety of offerings for the special program. -
Feb 26, 2022, 11:00 AM
Spain to issue circulating commemorative €2 coin for explorer
Spain will release a circulating commemorative €2 coin celebrating explorer Juan Sebastian Elcano and the 500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation of the Earth in late March. -
Feb 21, 2022, 09:00 AM
New Deadly & Dangerous coins feature venomous black snake
The red-bellied black snake is featured on the latest offerings of the Perth Mint's Deadly & Dangerous coin series: a silver coin for Tuvalu and a gold coin for Niue both starring the snake in color. -
Feb 20, 2022, 09:00 AM
British Royal Mail ship featured in Pobjoy Mint series
The fourth in a planned six-coin series showcasing ships by the Pobjoy Mint will center on a British Royal Mail ship that sank off the coast of the British Virgin Islands in 1867. -
Feb 19, 2022, 09:30 AM
Poland issues two coins for 2022 Olympics
Poland's past Olympics teams' success is honored and the nation's involvement in the latest games is marked with 2022 gold and silver issues for the XXIV Olympic Winter Games. -
Feb 14, 2022, 09:00 AM
Stolen design claim leads to new design contest for Croatian euro
Controversy continues to cast a shadow on Croatia’s adoption of the euro currency, with the latest kerfuffle involving allegations of a stolen coin design, requiring a second design contest. -
Feb 10, 2022, 08:33 AM
Pobjoy Mint marks ship visit to island on 50-penny coin
The SMS Moltke of the German Imperial Navy is the subject of a 2022 50-penny coin in Pobjoy Mint's series for South Georgia and the Sandwich Islands featuring historical ships related to the islands. -
Feb 7, 2022, 11:00 AM
Underground Railroad is subject of new Royal Canadian Mint coin
The RCM's theme for the 2022 Proof .9999 fine silver $20 issue just released in its ongoing Commemorating Black History series is the Underground Railroad, in a design by Toronto artist Kwame Delfish. -
Feb 5, 2022, 10:00 AM
Royal Mint reuses historic portraits of monarchs
The Royal Mint begins a five-year multicoin program in honor of historic British monarchs with 2022 Proof gold and silver coins celebrating Henry VII, using a remastered image from his coinage. -
Feb 3, 2022, 16:00 PM
France unveils €2 coin honoring late President Jacques Chirac
Two-term French president Jacques Chirac is honored with a circulating commemorative 2022 €2 coin from France, also available in Proof and Brilliant Uncirculated versions. -
Feb 3, 2022, 10:37 AM
Antelope featured in Pobjoy Wild 5 series
The third release in a planned five-issue series produced by Pobjoy Mint for Sierra Leone spotlights the antelope, with a copper-nickel dollar coin and Proof High Relief .999 fine silver $20 coin. -
Jan 31, 2022, 07:00 AM
Monday Morning Brief for Jan. 31, 2022: Found treasure coin exciting
All of us imagine finding buried treasure in the form of a rare coin or hoard of coins. Some achieve that dream. A metal detectorist in the UK whose find excited historians now reaps the windfall. -
Jan 28, 2022, 09:30 AM
Spink auctions rare gold penny in London sale
A gold penny issued for Henry III in the 13th century was discovered by a metal detectorist in the UK in September 2021 and sold well above estimate in a Spink sale in London for £648,000. -
Jan 27, 2022, 10:00 AM
Kazakh cosmonaut took coin on space mission
A Kazakh-born cosmonaut carried a 2014 copper-nickel 50-tenge coin on a 2015 space mission and that coin is now in a Kazakhstan museum for exhibit, thanks to a collector's intervention. -
Jan 25, 2022, 10:00 AM
Tribute to warship offered as next coin in Pobjoy series
A 32-gun frigate of the British Royal Navy that served in the American War of Independence and the Napoleonic Wars now appears on a dollar coin in a Ship series from Pobjoy Mint.
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