Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2025 i World Coin News

Spring has sprung over here in NumisMaster, and it is difficult not to gaze out the window and see all that’s beginning to blossom and turn green. But we must stay focused on the task at hand. We started this month with a significant metals update. With the rising prices of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium, this large update, which previously was done every quarter, has changed to an “as demands” basis. This update influences hundreds of thousands of coins, which reflect their respective metal. This also updates a large number of pricing fields, especially bullion coins. While this update was occurring, we added new issues of coins and bank notes to various countries, accumulating almost 300 between the two currencies. Spot pricing in Canada, Guatemala, Mozambique, and Haiti was…

The Roman Republic took possession of the southern and eastern Iberian Peninsula (known as Roman Hispania) in 206 B.C. during the Second Punic War. The balance of the peninsula controlled by the Aquitanian, Celtiberian, Celtic, and Iberian tribes followed. In 197 B.C., Rome established the provinces of Hispania Citerior and Hispania Ulterior. The last vestiges of independence ended in 19 B.C. with Rome’s victory in the Cantabrian Wars. The Roman Emperor Augustus then reorganized what had been an ad hoc administration of semi-independent Roman governors. Hispania Citerior was expanded and renamed Hispania Tarraconensis. Hispania Ulterior was divided into Baetica and Lusitania and absorbed what is today part of Salamanca and the autonomous community of Extremadura. Accompanying Augustus’ reorganization was a decrease in the number of towns from which coins were…

It’s difficult to ignore the well-broadcasted news that U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. Mint to cease production of the 1-cent coin due to the coin costing more than three times its face value to manufacture. This is news in one way, yet in another, it’s not. In recent years, other mints around the world have faced similar problems with low-value coins. The bottom line is the loss of seigniorage, the difference in the cost to manufacture a coin than its face value. In an ideal world, a mint can produce a coin or print a bank note for less than its face value, and that mint then either puts that seigniorage profit into its own pocket or its country’s treasury. Namibia is no different than any other nations…

France The Monnaie De Paris celebrates the 80th anniversary of V-E Day for its latest release. The coin comes in gold and silver and depending on the variation, features a soldier from France, Great Britain, Canada, or the United States. Croatia Artist Jelena Mavrić Varga captures the likeness of writer Marija Jurić Zagorka for the “Croatian Literature” coin series. Available in 1-ounce gold or silver, this collaboration highlights Zagorka’s literary work and advocacy for women’s rights. Slovakia A grey wolf howls, a brown bear roars, and a Eurasian lynx prowls on this 1-troy ounce “Fauna and Flora in Slovakia” set. The coins were created to capture the biodiversity and beauty of the country’s forests, and it is the first partnership between the National Bank of Slovakia and the Pressburg Mint.…

Do you suffer from separation anxiety from your coins? Do you worry about pieces of your coins separating? If you collect ringed bimetal coins, separating the center plug from the outer ring might be a more serious problem than you imagine. The separation of the inner plug from the outer ring has been a concern ever since this coinage was introduced. A poster on the social media app Threads.net recently posted an image of a Hong Kong $10 coin where it was explained it was “dismantled” from its centerpiece. The nickel-brass center is shown as separated from the copper-nickel composition outer ring. The poster humorously noted that the center plug from the coin had been “transformed” into a Hong Kong 10-cent coin due to the separation. There have been critics…

Let’s look at the Ottomans during their golden age of power. I think there are two kinds of human governments. There is a boss who enforces their whims to the extent of their power to their people. And there is a system in which people, in a more general sense, are given various degrees of privilege and infrastructure. Over time, people kept discovering that if the populace is repressed, they will eventually die or flee, and the system stops working, or a successful rebellion overrules. You must give them something. Then, of course, they want more. Who wouldn’t? Nothing lasts forever, said the Buddha. The boss model, at a low level, is a bandit gang. At a top level, it is a world conqueror, like Tamerlane. The favored form of…

When Switzerland became a federal state in 1848, it wasn’t just a political turning point—it also marked the beginning of a new era in the country’s monetary history. Before 1848, Switzerland was in the grip of what can only be described as chaos; each canton issued its own currency, and foreign coins circulated freely. As the blog of the Swiss National Museum puts it, anyone traveling through the country at the time “either needed at least ten wallets or had to keep running to the exchange office.” In Zurich, people paid with ducats or thalers. In Schwyz, it was the rappen, and in the Grisons region, a meal might be priced in batzen. This patchwork of local and foreign currencies was anything but future-proof; Switzerland needed a unified monetary system.…

Pope Francis died on April 21, ending a papacy that saw vast changes in the Vatican’s approach to doctrine and how the Roman Catholic Church fits into the modern world and vice versa. Francis also made sweeping changes to the coinage of Vatican City. When this article was written, his successor had not yet been chosen. Regardless, changes in Vatican City coinage can once again be anticipated. Vatican City and San Marino are independent city-states landlocked by Italy. Each has been a de facto European Union monetary union member since 2002 due to individual financial agreements with Italy, an EU member also using the union currency. Officially, Vatican City is not a Eurozone or EU member. Both Vatican City and San Marino use the same monetary system of coins as…

Coin Week appears to be celebrated primarily by the American Numismatic Association and the United States. In fact, National Coin Week in the United States is quite different from the Coin Week 2025 campaign recently completed by the Bank of Russia. The country’s April 7 to 19 Coin Week aimed to exchange small change coins for paper bank notes rather than celebrating coinage as a hobby. According to a November 4, 2024, Oreanda-News report, “The central bank resumed printing 10-ruble and 5-ruble bank notes last year, as it is more profitable than minting coins of this denomination. The deputy called the regulator’s approach ‘correct’ and allowing to save money on production. He stressed that, according to the law, 1 ruble should also be in circulation, since it is the national…

Perhaps the most interesting yet least understood Russian coinage is those made of platinum. To properly understand this very special facet of numismatics, we must travel back to the time of Catherine the Great in 1768. As was endemic to absolutist regimes in the 18th century, there was always a lack of ready money to pay salaries, buy army uniforms, and other expenses for which a modern state is liable. Increasingly heavy taxation by the imperial government had failed repeatedly to raise the necessary funds. At length, someone in the Treasury remembered one of the schemes put forth early in 1762 during the short reign of Peter III. There had been a serious discussion about putting paper money into circulation within the vast Russian Empire. The Empress agreed and, in…

Collectors from the Midwest and beyond were at the annual Central States Numismatic Society’s (CSNS) convention. Celebrating its 86th year, the convention was held on April 23–26 at the Schaumburg Renaissance Hotel and Convention Center. A tradition of the convention is to celebrate currency from one of CSNS’ 13 member states. This year was all about the Cornhusker State, Nebraska. Representing were dealers from the state and two museums (Higgins Museums of National Bank Notes and Durham Museum) that exhibited rare Nebraska money. The event hub was centralized around an active bourse floor, which was filled with over 400 tables from dealers and exhibitors from local and afar. Navigating this vast selection was made easy as the floor was divided by specialty such as world and ancient coins and paper…