Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2025 i World Coin News

We are still running full steam ahead in NumisMaster, carrying the momentum from last month. The first part of the Coin of The Year (COTY) process has been completed. Mints from across the world submitted their best 2024 coins for nomination and narrowing them down will be difficult! Every nominated coin, which totals well over 500, has a KM number and can be found in NumisMaster. We are pleased also to announce that the paper money is continuing at an excellent pace. There have been over 500 bank notes added so far in 2025. The goal is to have them all in by the year’s end. This Month’s Frequently Asked Question: Writing this article every month and getting the bank notes entered and updated made me wonder how many numismatists…

In the previous article, some picture credits were inadvertently omitted. Some photographs of later Byzantine coins were kindly supplied by Warren Esty, who runs augustuscoins. com. He has been an excellent and congenial source of both pictures and advice on Byzantine coins, having made a serious study of the series. And his website is excellent, with extensive historical presentations. He buys and sells, too. Let’s go through the last five or so decades of the Byzantine Empire and then more closely examine the Ottomans, who conquered Constantinople in 1453. For several centuries, things did not get better for the Byzantines. John V was emperor for fifty years, but most of that was turmoil. He was elevated as a child and there was an immediate civil war between rival regency councils.…

What do you do when you see a penny on the ground? Do you pick it up and put it in your pocket? Or do you keep walking, leaving the one-cent piece? Some people will have a determinate yes or no answer, while others will say it depends... For many, maybe even World Coin News’s readers, the penny’s worth isn’t in its financial value. Many countries like Switzerland, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada have stopped minting the coin, and as seen with the current public discussion on its relevancy to American currency, the penny isn’t generally considered sought-after. Instead, what determines the coin’s worth for many is what side it is found. If one discovers a penny on the ground with the obverse facing up, they may immediately pick it…

With the introduction of new machinery at the St. Petersburg Mint in 1843 and 1844, the Russian silver and gold coinage was now second to none. During the late 1830s and early 1840s, the quality of the silver coins had often been poor, especially for the rubles. While the coinage quality may have improved, the European political situation did not, and Nicholas I faced an increasingly dangerous world beyond his borders and within. In the spring and summer of 1848, peasant and middle-class discontent flared into open rebellion in a number of European countries, especially Germany, France, and the Austrian Empire. The Czar viewed these developments with great alarm as he feared that the infection would spread into Russia itself. Serfdom was still alive and well, and it would take…

On August 24 A.D. 79, a typical day turned into a nightmare when the eruption of Vesuvius overtook the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The eruption began a little after noon, and within a few hours, over 2,000 people died, and the then-urban city was covered in ash and pumice, forever becoming a ghost town. Lichtenstein-based CIT is taking the historical moment to new heights with its Cook Islands $20 “Lost City-Pompeii” coin. Depicted during the moment of the eruption, the coin shows a 10-millimeter relief of the blackened crater of Vesuvius looming over the city as ash and bright red lava emit from it. CIT’s smartminting® technology created this impressive height Developed together with B.H. Mayer’s Kunstprägeanstalt GmbH, the innovative device allows CIT to add dimension to its coin…

LATE ROMAN GOLD FOUND IN LUXEMBOURG When a hoard of ancient Roman gold coins was unearthed in Luxembourg, the find was excavated with the help of the Luxembourg Army Mine Action Service (SEDAL). The region where the coins were discovered has gone through some wars, the latest being World War II. The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was invaded in 1940 by Nazi Germany and liberated by the Allies in 1944. Munitions and explosives from that war are still being found in the area, which is why SEDAL got involved in the find. Discovered were 141 gold solidi coins in the village of Holzthum in northern Luxembourg. Today, Holzthum is in the “Little Switzerland” region of Mullerthal in northern Luxembourg. Holzthum was one of the towns involved in the initial Allied…

Austrian Mint A colorful dirndl stars on the “Aufdirndln – Linen,” the first coin of a special uncirculated proof 10-euro series that highlights the national costumes of Austria. NumisCollect The fourth issue of the commemorative “Our Wonderful Earth Ecosystems” series, this proof finish “Coral Reef ” coin for Palau presents a colorful underwater scene with brightly colored fish and a stealthy shark. Royal Canadian Mint A shadowbox technique creates a whimsical yet haunting scene on this collector’s fine silver, antique finish coin. AUCTIONS Löser Becomes a Winner at Berlin Auction Künker commenced the World Money Fair on January 29 with its auction event, “Auction 418.” Through 705 lots, the German auction house earned roughly 15 million euros during the sale, which was five million euros above the auction estimate. The…