Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2022 i World Coin News

World Coin News staff is busy readying the 2022 Summer Show & Auction Guide, and we want your show included – for free! The Show & Auction Guide is a semi-annual supplement to Numismatic News, World Coin News and Bank Note Reporter. Featuring the hobby’s most complete listing of coin shows taking place through the end of the year – as well as a comprehensive list of numismatic auction firms – you’ll want to be sure to have your club’s or organization’s show among them. This year’s Summer Show & Auction Guide will appear in the June 7, 2022, issue of Numismatic News and the July issues of sister publications World Coin News and Bank Note Reporter. Show listings can be submitted via an online form at https://hs.numismaster.com/submit-a-show-listing, or details…

Coin hoarding might be illegal? Where would you draw the legal line between hoarding and having a large coin collection? These are on the table as the Philippines considers legislation that would tighter laws against currency counterfeiting and the unnecessary accumulation or hoarding of coins. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Benjamin E. Diokno said, “These proposed measures are expected to further strengthen BSP’s currency operations covering production, distribution, deposit-taking from banks, authenticity verification, anti-counterfeiting operations, and retirement.” The governor continued, “The proposal entails amendments to existing laws and will take into consideration the current economic landscape, as well as advancements in printing technologies,” adding, “The BSP continues to work with stakeholders towards protecting the public against the unlawful or improper use of Philippine currency.” Philippine Senator Grace Poe added, “Reminders…

THIS IS AN alphabetically arranged survey of coins by country. We’re in the middle of letter T. Where we were last time, Timor, is about 8,500 miles east of the country that is the subject of this presentation: Togo, in West Africa. Well, I was a stamp collector when I was a kid, before I landed on coins. Somehow, there were these canceled stamps from all over the world. I remember the Togo stamps. They looked like French stamps with regional motifs. Otherwise, I didn’t know anything about Togo, or Ivory Coast, or Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), or Dahomey (now Benin). Togo turns out to be one of the smallest and narrowest countries in the world. It would be prudent to have reasonable relations with its neighbors, and generally…

ON MAY 4, 2012, the last penny was struck in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Ten years later, the Royal Canadian Mint is boldly commemorating that special moment in numismatic history with the 2022 5 oz. One-Cent Fine Silver Coin – 10th Anniversary of the Farewell to the Penny. This imposing coin features a modern interpretation of the penny’s familiar twin maple leaf and twig design. The re-imagining of G. E. Kruger Gray’s 1937 design is achieved by a dazzling array of geometric facets that radiate light at multiple angles from the center of a 99.99 percent pure silver selectively gold-plated coin. This innovative new collectible is available as of today.…

All of Eastern Europe watches the developments with a wary eye as war rages in neighboring Ukraine. Despite the uncertainties regarding Russian aggression against Ukraine the Organizing Committee of the XVI International Numismatic Congress recently made it clear the September 11-16 event will take place in Warsaw, Poland, as was originally scheduled. The INC released a statement March 9 reading: “On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the XVI International Numismatic Congress, we strongly condemn V[ladimir] Putin’s aggression on the territory of Ukraine. Following the decision of the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education to suspend all contacts with Russian scholars resulting from the escalation of Russian activities and the institutional involvement of Russian science on the side of the regime, we are obliged to inform you that the…

The Jan. 12 Forbes magazine headline “Crypto vs. China’s Digital Currency: Never The Twain Shall Meet” appears to say it all regarding China’s attitude towards a currency system The Peoples’ Republic can’t monitor. China is more interested in its government owned and controlled e-yuan. The e-yuan has been recently highlighted in the Alibaba owned newspaper South China Morning Post. According to the Feb. 4 issue, Zhongguancun Bank in Beijing and NewUp Bank in Liaoning each gained permission from China’s central bank to suspend all cash services. Despite these news flashes it does not appear China is in any hurry, if ever at all, to drop its coins and bank notes in favor of some form of electronic cash system. It is true that Zhongguancun Bank, which serves customers in the…

The French side became the Togo that issued the Togo colonial coins. There were aluminum-bronze 50 centimes, 1, and 2 francs. The module was the same as the metropolitan French BON POUR coins of the time. The coins mention the mandate status of the territory. The main dates are 1924 and 1925, there is a scarce 1926 50 centimes. I’ve had quite a few of each denomination for 1924 and 1925. Circulated is the normal condition, some have light corrosion, some have been cleaned. Uncirculated specimens exist but are rare. After World War II France reorganized its government and came up with a “French Union” to call its colonial enterprises. They hoped, one way or another, to keep the ball rolling. The general idea was that all the colonies would…

IN 2010 THE Spanish Royal Mint started a series of 2 Euro commemorative coins dedicated to the Spanish sites in the UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The first twelve coins were dedicated to the historic center of Cordoba, to the Alhambra, Generalife and Albaicín in Granada, to the Cathedral of Burgos, to the Monastery of El Escorial, to the ‘Works of Gaudi’, to the Altamira Cave, to the Aqueduct of Segovia, to the Church of Santa María del Naranco, to the Old Town of Santiago de Compostela. the Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches, the Mudejar Architecture of Aragon and the Old Town of Toledo. The 2022 issue is dedicated to the Garajonay National Park in the island of La Gomera, one of the Canary Island. It was declared…

Could reggae musician Bob Marley appear on a Jamaican coin or bank note? While according to the Bank of Jamaica it isn’t possible Jamaicans on social media don’t agree. Jamaica is preparing for a new set of bank notes while considering changes to Jamaica’s circulating coins. The $2,000 bank note denomination is new and is being added as a convenience while continuing to suggest inflationary pressures to use higher denomination notes more often in circulation. Inflation in the island nation was at 5.21 percent in 2020, 5.61 percent during 2021, and so far at 6.25 percent during 2022. According to the Bank of Jamaica web site, in selecting human images for the front of bank notes and coins: “The current policy of the Bank of Jamaica is to consider for…

THE COINAGE OF Imperial Russia has long been divided by numismatists into two different kinds: that for the homeland and that for special areas, such as Siberia or Finland. In a small number of cases, however, we find coins being made for lands under direct occupation by the Russian army during wartime. One of the most interesting of these special military currencies was minted for East Prussia from 1759 to 1762. The Seven Year’s War (called the French and Indian War in its American aspect) began in 1756 as a result of the expansionist policies of the Prussian government under Frederick II. This king wanted Prussia to become a much larger and important state than it was. During the early 1750s there was considerable jockeying for power as rival European…