Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2020 i World Coin News

The 2020 pandemic has required many people and businesses around the world to rethink their daily activities. Those folks working and living within the field of numismatics are no different. We have all adjusted our lives to do what we can for each other. In times of trouble great lights will always shine and I have been happy to see one shining from the UK over the past couple of months. The Royal Mint has been a fantastic anchor for numismatists in the UK and around the world during the pandemic. They have led the way for the business of coins to become a community of shared interests and strengths. On March 26, the Royal Mint introduced the new Kids Hub to help entertain and educate little ones during the…

THE DISCOVERY OF one of the largest hoards of Roman or pseudo-Roman coins ever found in Poland was announced March 31 by a spokesman for a local museum in Hrubieszów where the coins are currently stored. The find actually took place during 2019 but a public announcement of the find was withheld until now. The hoard of 1,753 silver coins weighing more than five kilos or a little more than 11 pounds was discovered in 2019 in a field near Cichobórz south of Hrubieszów by local farmer Mariusz Dyl. According to the farmer, Dyl was looking for antlers when he encountered the first coins. The entire find was spread throughout a 100 meter area, inadvertently having been scattered by agricultural equipment. Dyl reported the find to the museum in Hrubieszów.…

Why does Queen Elizabeth II appear on coins of Canada? Aren’t they an independent country? Canada may be independent but Queen Elizabeth II is, by Constitutional law, queen of Canada and the head of state. Is there a way to learn how popular collecting of domestic coins is in their country of origin? No one has reliable statistics on the popularity of coin collecting in any particular country, including the United States. How many people collect coins of the country in which they reside appears to follow the economic prosperity of the individual nation. Putting bread on the table is the priority above anything else. Coins and currency are issued through central banks today. When did central banking take over issuing money? In 1694, the Bank of England was established…

WHEN ROYAL MINT coin designer Dominique Evans was tasked with designing the Victory in Europe Day commemorative coin for the UK, she tapped into her memories of the vivid stories her Nan told her of the war years. “My Nan very much inspired my design for this coin – bringing to life her stories of this time when she was a young girl in London and later sent to Bournemouth during the war. She can so vividly recount the emotion and colour of VE Day and how the news swept through our family, neighbours, towns and cities.” The emotion at the close of World War II in Europe was euphoric and yet, there was a sense of a job not yet finished. This was experienced in all countries, in different…

COINS AND BANK notes have been making headlines recently due to the fear of disease being spread when handling cash during the coronavirus outbreak. US President Donald Trump is well known for referring to news reporting he doesn’t like as fake news. Regardless of if you agree with Trump’s assessment or not, you have to admit many of the headlines regarding currency and the spread of disease may be meant to grab your attention while possibly distorting the facts to make a good story. There isn’t room here to review every headline being encountered but the sampling presented should give readers a good idea of the current attitudes towards physical cash as people view it during the age of the coronavirus. As an example, on March 13 the United Kingdom…

AN EARLY 18TH century hoard of coins likely hidden during the turbulent time of the Thököly uprising in what is today eastern Slovakia has been recently announced by Regional Monuments Board Košice. The discovery dubbed the ‘Mono-ocular Treasure’ by local archaeologists actually took place in February, according to RMBK. The name is a reference to the one-eyed priest who is believed to have hidden the treasure. The initial coin discovery was made following when the floor of the catholic Church of St. Martina in Obišovce near Košice was removed, exposing the foundation. Further study of the ruins of the church were then conducted by the research company Triglav. Triglav excavated the original stone floor near the church’s western doorway. The excavators found a ceramic jug or mug sealed with a…

DURING EARLY 2017 De La Rue stock was trading near the high point of its 52-week value. As of April 10 this year the stock was trading at the paltry figure of 14.3 percent of its 52-week high as the stock tumbled to $1.47, down from $18.06 that is the current 52-week high. What is going on here? De La Rue PLC is ‘the’ household name in high security paper and printing technology worldwide. The company produces bank notes for at least 69 countries. It is also responsible for producing bank checks, driver licenses, postage stamps, tax stamps, traveler’s checks, and vouchers. Founded by Thomas de la Rue when de la Rue relocated from Guernsey to London in 1821, the company is today listed on the London Stock Exchange. (Peter…

JUNE Jun 2 IL, Niles. 1st Sunday Niles Coin Show. Howard Commons, 6231 W. Howard St.. SH: 9 am - 3 pm. SP: N.O.I.S.E.. T: 40. F: $65/1, $120/2, $165/3. Joe. PH: 815- 479-0350 or noisecoinshowillinois@gmail.com. Jun 6 TN, Knoxville. Knoxville Coin & Currency Show. Rothchild Catering & Conference Center, 8807 Kingston Pike. SH: 9am - 4pm. A: Free. T: 20. F: $65. Robert Bruner, POB 465, Strawberry Plains, TN, 37871. PH: 865- 660-8692 or beavercreekcoins@gmail.com. Jun 6-7 MD, Frederick. Frederick Coin & Currency Show. Frederick Elks Lodge #684, 289 Willowdale Dr.,. SH: Sat. 9am - 5pm; Sun. 9am - 4pm. A: Free. T: 60. F: $110. Carl Earl Ostiguy, PO Box 92, Savage, MD, 20763. PH: 443- 623-7025 or ceocoins@comcast.net or www.coinshows.com. Jun 7 IL, Peotone. Peotone Coin and…

FROM THE SPRING of 1727 until early in 1730 Russia was under the reign of a boy-czar, Peter II, the only surviving grandson of Peter the Great. His birth was the result of a marriage arranged for dynastic reasons but the real story began many years before that. The eldest son of Peter the Great, Alexis, was born in 1690 but was brought up by his mother, an arch-foe of the reforms then sweeping the country under the giant czar. In 1711, Alexis married a German princess, Charlotte. Alexis turned out to be a slovenly drunk and his treatment of Charlotte was an open scandal; the ultimate insult came when Alexis moved his mistress into the same house. There were occasional reconciliations, as shown by the birth of a son,…

CLEANING COINS IS a well known ‘no-no’ for coin collectors. What would you do should your coins become a possible contaminant during a pandemic such as the coronavirus outbreak now being experienced all over the world? One possible solution is to ‘sanitize’ each coin and bank note. What sanitizing might involve is the question. Sanitizing money could involve any of several protocols, according to. Thailand’s Ministry of Finance Director-General Yuttana Yimgarund. Yimgarund recently suggested either exposing coins or bank notes to ultraviolet light at 200 degrees Celsius or washing the currency with detergent or alcohol, then drying it under direct sunlight. The bank warned against using washing powder or bleach, saying: “Baking or boiling money may damage the notes.” In an April 11 broadcast the Australian television program 7 News…

THE MINISTRY OF Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation recently identified a fake Bank of Russia (Russia’s central bank) that has been using high-tech information technology techniques to issue about 1 billion rubles and distribute the phony money successfully throughout Russia. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, high-quality fakes produced in Nizhny Novgorod were delivered to almost all regions of the Russian Federation using the Internet-resource Hydr and its ‘mirror,’ which was supposed to be regularly blocked by Roskomnadzor. Roskomnadzor or the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media (Роскомнадзор in Russian) is responsible for censorship in areas including information technology and telecommunications. According to the April 7 issue of the Russian daily newspaper Kommersant, what was described as “a few dozen people” were involved…