News Archive (2008)

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British Museum say Treasure Act is having the right effect
Antique Trades Gazette

THE British Museum have credited the Treasure Act – which ensures treasure hunters are compensated for finds – for the significant increase in reported objects.

SINGAPORE: The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched the 2009 Year of the Ox Almanac Coins set.

The coins are part of a series designed by Xu Yunfei, a designer from the Shanghai Mint.

THERE'S a worldwide run on gold coins.

Even as the price of the precious metal itself comes under pressure along with commodities like oil and copper, people around the world are demanding so many of the valuable coins that government mints are having difficulty filling orders.

United States Mint Deputy Director Andrew Brunhart today unveiled designs for the 2009 Abraham Lincoln Commemorative Silver Dollar during the annual Dedication Day Ceremony at Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

In April 2008 new reverse designs were introduced for all United Kingdom coins up to the £1 coin. These will eventually replace the designs that have been in use since the decimalisation of the coinage nearly 40 years ago.

700-year-old coins found in field
BBC

Three 700-year-old coins which were found in a field have been declared treasure by a coroner at Flint.

The silver pennies date back to between 1307 and 1314, to the reigns of both Edward I and his son Edward II.

New Zealand has announced a new annual series of legal tender coins to be issued over the next three years to both celebrate and promote conservation of New Zealand's iconic kiwi - that chicken-sized, endangered, half-blind bird that can't fly, has hairy feathers, nostrils in the end of its nose and lays the largest egg in the world for its body size.

Metal flows into die’s damaged areas

Among coinage struck in the first century of the U.S. Mint's full-scale operations, beginning in 1793, it is not uncommon to encounter coins struck from dies that rusted because of improper storage.

Some 3,000 years ago, the Shang Dynasty (1700-1027 BCE) in China was using cowries as money. Toward the end of that era, the first coins appeared, except that they weren't the round coins we're familiar with.

The American Numismatic Association is calling on its members to provide the theme for the 86th annual National Coin Week, April 19-25, 2009. The coming year’s weeklong event will celebrate the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln and his role in United States history and numismatics; all theme submissions should focus on the nation’s 16th President.