World Coin News

On the NumisMaster front, we hit a huge milestone in July, having added 10,000 new coin types in the first half of 2023. That’s a massive number and major accomplishment for the Numis-Master team. Our New Issues Analyst, Jennifer Bushland, has spearh

The ruins of the Gonio Apsaros fortress are situated south of village of Batumi, the village being just north of Turkey at the mouth of the Chorokhi River in what today is the transcontinental nation of Georgia. Georgia is situated on the border of E

At a time when much of the rest of the world is considering if a cashless society may be inevitable, Switzerland is hunkering down, ensuring its cherished franc coins and bank notes remain as legal tender. Often considered the currency of choice as a

Due to inflation many countries are considering introducing higher denomination coins or bank notes. Not India. The Asian nation is withdrawing its highest denomination bank note, a note with a face value of 2,000 rupees. According to the Reserve Ban

The career of Alexander the Great marks the entrance of Europe in the grand contention of Empires on the Old World stage. It had been the “Middle East” and China, with Europe a wilderness of troublesome but otherwise unimportant barbarians. Alexander

The publication Central Banking reported on April 27 that Argentina was importing its bank notes from several countries. On May 22 The Guardian newspaper reported Argentina’s newest and highest denomination bank note, the 2,000 peso, was worth $4 U.S

In early November 1796 Catherine II died after a reign of more than 34 years. Her son Paul who succeeded her, was faced with a number of economic problems, but the most pressing was the decline in value of the paper currency. The first assignats (pap

A Hsüan-t’ung silver Specimen Pattern “Long-Whiskered Dragon” Dollar Year 3 (1911) SP63 NGC sold for $690,000 to lead Heritage Auctions’ HKINF World Coins Platinum Session and Signature® Auction - Hong Kong to $9,675,525 June 21-23. The result follow

On 23-24, 2023, two Künker eLive Premium Auctions took place. Auction 389 contained, among other things, an extensive series with coins from Bremen-Verden as well as the last part of the Dr. Walter Kemmlein Collection with Saxon issues. Auction 390 p

On June 28, 2023, the Croatian National Bank issued two new collector coins in collaboration with the Croatian Mint. They are dedicated to the Croatian polymath Faust Vrančić. Faustus Verantius, better known in Croatia today as Faust Vrančić, lived d

In 2021 the Fabrica Nacional de Moneda y Timbre – Real Casa de la Moneda started to issue an annual series of bullion gold coins in two denominations. 1.5-euro face value (1 oz. gold) and 15-euro cent (1/10th of oz. gold). The Iberian Lynx was issued