Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2022 i World Coin News

Queen Elizabeth II’s 70 years on the British throne may be a record, but so is the size of a British Royal Mint coin recently released in her honor. The BRM recently issued a 220 millimetre or 8.7-inch diameter £15,000 gold coin to mark the occasion. The coin has a weight of 15 kilograms (529.109 ounces or 33.07 pounds). As such this is the largest coin ever produced by the mint. The coin is unique, the single example having been commissioned by “a long-standing customer of the Royal Mint.” The unnamed client released a statement reading, “I have invested in unique and interesting coins marking moments throughout the queen’s reign that will remain in my family for generations.” Clare Maclennan is the divisional director of commemorative coin at the Royal…

Not long after Czar Peter III was overthrown by his wife Catherine, in late June 1762, orders were issued that her coinage in gold and silver begin as soon as possible. It was considered then, as now, that the currency should reflect the real ruler of the country. Within a matter of weeks planning for the gold coinage was well underway. The only gold coins struck for Catherine II in 1762 were imperials (10 rubles) and half imperials (5 rubles). St. Petersburg struck both denominations while Moscow managed only the larger of the two. Some 20,913 of the 5 rubles were coined and 32,085 of the 10 rubles. There is no breakdown available for the 10-ruble pieces between the two mints but it is thought that the bulk of the…

AS PEOPLE ACROSS the world begin to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, The Royal Mint has launched a special three coin collection honoring Her Majesty’s reign. The first coin in the collection focuses on Her Majesty’s awards and honors, recognizing individual service in many forms. The second coin highlights Her Majesty’s work with charities and as a patron, whilst the third and final coin celebrates the Commonwealth, a ‘family of nations’ she has championed throughout her reign. Each coin in the collection is united by featuring Her Majesty The Queen’s signature in the center of each design. This during Her Majesty’s reign – a fitting tribute to mark The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Clare Maclennan, Divisional Director of Commemorative Coin at The Royal Mint said, “As we celebrate Her…

The Show Guide section provides geographic information about numismatic shows scheduled for 2022. To look up a show quickly by date alone, or if you first need to find out where a particular show will be held, use the Showdex section beginning on Page A18. Show dates and locations are sometimes changed at the last minute, so it’s best to call the promoter or show site before traveling a long distance. Except as otherwise indicated by the name of a sponsoring organization, shows listed are commercially sponsored events. If no listing appears for a state, there are no shows in that state during the covered period. Abbreviations used: A – admission charge; T – number of tables; ( ) – number of primarily numismatic tables at a multi-hobby shows; F…

On March 20, 2020, ABC News reported, “In a world suffering a pandemic, cash is no longer king. A growing number of businesses and individuals worldwide have stopped using bank notes in fear that physical currency, handled by tens of thousands of people over their useful life, could be a vector for the spreading coronavirus.” The damage was done. Proponents of a cashless society were quick to announce the world of physical cash, that being coins and bank notes, would soon be over. Many businesses still insist on payment via a credit card or electronic device even now, two years later. Electronic forms of payment listed on stock markets have recently plummeted significantly lower than have the spot price of physical gold or silver, each of which have also been…

“As important to the whole population as access to clean water” is the way one individual responded to a recent Reserve Bank of New Zealand survey of the attitude of the bank’s constituents towards using physical cash rather than digital currency. While this is only one person’s opinion, the results of the study through which 6,882 individuals responded was overwhelming. About 92 percent of those who responded said they preferred cash to digital currency. The RBNZ is considering a central bank digital currency for ‘Aotearoa,’ the Maori language name for New Zealand. The key here is a “well functioning cash system.” As the April 30 issue of website, The SpinOff put it, “The majority of respondents supported having a well-functioning cash system, with some saying access to cash is a…

I’VE WRITTEN THESE articles based on the country lists in the Standard Catalog of World Coins. When I started, they were only publishing books, and I think they had three volumes: 20th, 19th, and 18th centuries. I used the list in the 20th century book. That list changed over time and continues to change. There are more countries in the 21st century. The tendency in general has been for there to be more countries. While I’ve been writing no countries, once created, have been eliminated. The book that I built my articles list around has been transformed into a website, Numismaster.com. But I continue to use the country list of late versions of the actual printed books, 20th and 21st centuries. More convenient to have a list. We just got…

JUST WHAT DOES THE future hold? Will there be flying cars and hologram messaging? Will robots walk among us? We may never know in this lifetime, or even our great-great grandkids’ time, but that doesn’t stop people from dreaming up the future and what it may look like. Whether it’s a utopian society, something out of a horror movie, or something in between we will forever be looking forward and wondering. This new coin minted by CIT on behalf of Palau taps into the wonderment of the possibilities. The silver .999 2 oz coin shows a man pulling aside a curtain revealing the future: a robot, a suspension railway, a flying car, and more are shown. CIT uses smartminting® technology to help create the illusion of a theater stage. A…

The auction house of Künker sold a Double Rose Noble Piedfort issued by the Hanseatic League city of Kampen for €700,000 plus 20 percent buyers charge for a total of €840,000 (approx. $940,000 at the time) on March 22, 2022. Shipment of the coin to the buyer in the United States had to wait several months for the grant of a German export license. Germany requires the granting of such a license for items of significant artistic, historic, and cultural value. The very rare and valuable Double Rose Noble of Kampen has long been considered the largest and most beautiful of all Dutch medieval hammered gold coins. This coin is extra special in that it was a Piedfort. Piedforts are special heavy weight coins made for presentations to top government…

Counterfeit coins recently failed to claw their way into Canadian commerce. On May 9 68-year-old Daixiong He of Richmond Hills, Ontario was arrested for counterfeiting $2 coins. About 10,000 counterfeit $2 had been seized by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the coins were being circulating throughout the banking system. The Greater Toronto Area’s Trans-National Serious and Organized Crime Section had been investigating the situation since mid 2021 when the Royal Canadian Mint identified some fake $2 coins while examining a random sample of the denomination. Canada’s $2 coin, nicknamed the toonie, (Canada’s $1 coin is nicknamed the loonie) is a 28mm diameter ringed bimetal coin composed of a nickel outer rim and an aluminum-bronze central plug. The obverse of the current coin design introduced in 2003 features the Susanna…

Will the Caribbean guilder replace the Netherlands Antillean guilder by 2025 is the question being pondered by the Centrale Bank van Curacao en Sint Maarten or Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten. The switch in guilder currency is one of six goals involved in the CBCS Strategic Plan 2025. Specific details of the Strategic Plan were not available publically at the time this article was being written, however according to the CBCS website, “Technological advances, climate change and developments triggered by the global COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the economy and the financial sector are prompting changes in the scope and complexity of central bank operations and generating new risks that still need to be identified. As a result, these banks face fundamental shifts and are being challenged…

WITH A HIGHLY PRIZED "Una and the Lion" leading the way, more than 400 rare coins from a phenomenal collection realized CHF 5.8 million (about $5.8 million). Presented by Swiss auction house SINCONA, the sale included gold rarities spanning nearly 600 years of history. SINCONA Auction 75: SINCONA British Collection Part 2 was held May 16, 2022. The top lot was a Great Britain 1839 Una and the Lion 5 Sovereign graded NGC PF 62+ Cameo (lot 339), which realized CHF 480,000 (about $478,000). The obverse of the coin shows the young Queen Victoria, while the reverse displays a figure representing her guiding a lion, a symbol of England. The scene is inspired by one involving Lady Una in Edmund Spenser's epic poem "The Faerie Queene." Meanwhile, an England 1658…