Innholdsfortegnelse for February 2024 i World Coin News

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The Philippines has been trying to avoid minting costs by encouraging coins held by the public to re-circulate. The Isle of Man grudgingly submitted to consumer demands that their lowest denomination coins remain in circulation despite the expense of striking more of them. (The IOM is stockpiling coins, but for the present won’t mint further coins in low denominations.) Several European Union eurozone countries are abandoning the lowest denomination euro cent coins due to production expenses. Estonia recently reported it has repatriated sufficient 1- and 2-cent euro coins that there is now a two-month supply of the lowly denominations to avoid having to produce more of them at least for the time being. The Eesti Pank or Bank of Estonia recently proposed that rounding rules be introduced for 1 and…

Perhaps it’s a classic “who done it,” but a hoard of an estimated 100 to 150 silver medieval Silesian bracteates that appears to have been hidden intentionally was discovered in November in an old burgage lot in Szprotawa, Poland. A burgage was a town rental property consisting of a house on a long and narrow piece of land situated on a narrow street frontage typically owned by a local lord. This burgage is on Odrodzenia Street in Szprotawa, a small city in western Poland about 260 miles southwest of Warsaw. Odrodzenia Street was once a connector between the town’s market square and a city gate that no longer exists. Szprotawa was granted town rights about 1260 by Duke Konrad I of Głogów. Szprotawa was settled by Germans as part of…

More than 300 coins and bank notes were offered in a recent Eur-Seree auction highlighting rarities from Thailand. Several of the Thailand rarities sold for at least five figures in the Bangkok Sale #65, which was held Dec. 2-3, 2023. The top lot was a Thailand BE2526//1983 Gold 2,500 Baht - Year of Disabled Persons graded NGC PF 69 Ultra Cameo (lot 3043) that realized THB 686,340 (about $19,900). The coin is one of the earliest gold Proof issues from Thailand, which also commemorates the International Year of Disabled Persons. The internationally recognized event is marked annually on December 3 and has evolved since the 1980s into the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The rarity also features the bust of King Rama IX, who ruled for 70 years from…

The Certified Collectibles Group® (CCG®) is excited to announce that it will open an office in Tokyo, Japan, in 2024. CCG is a global leader in expert, impartial, and tech-enabled services for collectibles. Its iconic brands include some of the world’s largest and most trusted third-party authentication, grading, and encapsulation services: • Numismatic Guaranty Company® (NGC®), which certifies coins, tokens, and medals • Paper Money Guaranty® (PMG®), which certifies bank notes • Certified Guaranty Company® (CGC®), which certifies pop culture collectibles such as comic books, trading card games (TCGs), sports cards, video games and home video collectibles Together, CCG’s brands have certified more than 88 million collectibles since 1987. NGC, PMG, and CGC employ highly trained specialists who authenticate collectibles, assign a grade to them on internationally recognized scales, and…

For complete show listings visit NumisMaster.com The World Coin News club show and commercial events calendar is a guide to events with a focus for world-coin collectors. Domestic events scheduled up to 10 weeks in advance of the issue date and foreign events up to six months in advance are listed. Abbreviations used: “A” – Admission charge; “T” – number of tables; “F” – Table fee; “N/A” – not available. Other data required for submitting a listing: name and address of show site, and name and address of bourse chairman or other contact person. Your Show Can Be Featured In This Spot! numismatics@aimmedia.com ARIZONA Feb 11 AZ, Phoenix. Camelback Collectibles Coin Show. El Zaribah Shrine Auditorium, 552 N 40th St.. A: Free. Bill Jernigan. PH: 480- 650-1255 or xaviercoins.bill@gmail.com. .…

Should we have a numismatist and archaeologist appreciation day? If you were among the numismatists and archaeologists who have studied a cache of ancient coins found buried in a Welsh field in 2018 you might feel that way. It has been five years since the coins were discovered. It is only now that conclusions are being made about what the find represents. David Moss and Tom Taylor initially found the 2,733 ancient Roman coins and later 37 more with a metal detector in the fields of Caerhun Community in the northern Wales town of Conwy in December 2018. In a recent interview, Moss said, “People do not realize the amount of work that goes on behind the scenes at the national museum, from excavating the coins to looking after them…

The Royal Mint has revealed five new designs set to appear on UK commemorative coins in 2024. The five designs will feature on a 50p, £2 and £5 coin, each one celebrating key events and anniversaries from the upcoming year. The Buckingham Palace Arguably one of the most iconic palaces, Buckingham Palace takes center stage on an official £5 coin. The coin features the renowned architecture of Buckingham Palace. A pattern inspired by a feature of the Palace’s interior encircles the portrait of the building itself, which proudly flies the Royal Standard indicating the presence of the British monarch. Marking the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of Sir Winston Churchill The UK £2 coin struck to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Winston Churchill, depicts a portrait…

AROUND THE WORLD Bulgaria is a member of NATO and a member of the European Union. Bulgaria would like to join the eurozone common currency union, but it doesn’t appear to be in the cards at the moment. Bulgaria has recently set a new target date of Jan. 1, 2025, on which it will move from the lev to the euro. The lev, which was introduced more than 140 years ago, had a fixed exchange rate of 1.95583 lev to the euro at the time this article was being written. Bulgaria is seeking to adopt the euro to help boost its investment and credit security. The political situation has already led to Bulgaria scrapping its initial plans to be part of the currency union by 2024. In early 2023 then…

The Ghat pathway connected British India and Portuguese India during the age of the spice trade. A cashew farmer clearing brush on his farm in what had been Portuguese Goa recently found artifacts from India’s colonial past, these being a hoard of 832 copper coins. Ghat pathways are a rudimentary form of roads constructed mostly by the British Raj. The roads connect hill stations established in the mountains meant for those living in these remote regions. The Braganza Ghat was the only access someone traveling between the British and the Portuguese-occupied areas of India could use to reach Goa from Karnataka before the establishment of rail service. In mid-November Vishnu Joshi encountered the coin find in a small clay pot that disintegrated once handled while clearing his cashew orchard in…