The Royal Canadian Mint continues to impress with a steady stream of well designed, beautiful and innovative coins. Their latest release is a trilogy of precious metal coins all themed […]
Yearly Archives: 2016
The final coin in Disney Princess collection by the New Zealand Mint has now been released and the auspicious honour of bringing the popular series to a close has fallen […]
Disney Princess Series Closes With Pocahontas
Australia’s Returned and Services League(RSL) is an organization whose stated purpose it is to ensure “for the well-being, care, compensation and commemoration of serving and ex-service Defense Force members and […]
Australia Honours Returned and Services League
The Royal Canadian Mint has released two 1kg precious metal coins as a part of their June 2016 catalog, and they are stunningly beautiful coins that very nearly bring their […]
1 Kilogram Gold and Silver Maple Leaf Coins for 2016
England has finally unveiled their new five Pound note this week, and World Numismatic News is here to provide you with all of the details. The new fiver, as the […]
New Polymer £5 Banknote for England
The story of England’s 1966 FIFA World Cup victory has been told and re-told so many times that it has reached legendary status. 2016 marks the 50th anniversary of that […]
Royal Mint Celebrates 1966 Word Cup Victory
The final coins in the Great French Ships series, by Monnaie de Paris(The French Mint), have now been released. Completing the five year, forty five coin series that has served […]
France Closes Ships Series With Iconic Ocean Liner
The Mint of Poland is celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences(SGGW) by issuing two new commemorative coins. The university was first founded in 1816 as […]
Poland Celebrates 200th Anniversary of University
The Bank of Russia issued no less than eight new commemorative coins this week. As always the design quality of these coins are of a very high standard and helps […]
8 New Russian Commemorative Silver Coins
Amongst a total of eight new releases by the Bank of Russia this week are two silver coins that celebrate the incredibly rich and storied Russian history and culture., by […]
Russian History with Armoury Chamber Coins
The first of several new releases by the Bank of Russia for this week are two new partially colourized silver coins that form part of the History of Russian Aviation […]
2016 Entries For Russian Aviation Series
The following is a brief summary of the most interesting or important developments in the international banknote market during May 2016. News, new releases or just interesting facts. Banknote News […]
Banknote News Roundup – May 2016
The National Bank of Ukraine has released a new commemorative coin to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Kiev Tram network. Ukraine 2016 5 Hryvnia Horse Tram Coin Reverse Specifically […]
Ukraine Commemorates 125 Year Old Tram System
The official 2016 Austrian circulation currency proof coin set is now available. Austria 2016 Proof Coin Set Slip Cover Art The theme for the 2016 year set is the Austrian […]
Austria 2016 Proof Coin Sets Now Available
The Vatican’s Philatelic and Numismatic Office today released two new commemorative gold coins for 2016. The first piece is The Pontificate of Pope Francis gold 10 Euro coin. The coin […]
Vatican Issues First Gold Coins of 2016
The Swiss mint has released two new collectors coins for 2016, a gold 50 Franc and a silver 20 Franc coin. Much like the silver 20 Franc released in late […]
Swiss Mint releases new Gold and Silver Commemoratives
The Military Corps of the Italian Red Cross have acted as an auxiliary unit of the Italian Armed Forces since June 1st of 1866. Although they fall under the uauthority […]
Military Corps of the Italian Red Cross Silver €5
Following on the successful conclusion of the Native Orchids of Singapore Series last year the Singapore Mint have decided to issue a special collectors set entitled The Splendour of Native […]
Singapore Native Orchids Silver Set
The second of two new releases from the Art Mint this month, the Cat Eye coin marks the inaugural coin in a new series of artistic animal themed coins just […]
Art Mint Issues First Coin In New Animals Series
The Vatican Philatelic and Numismatic Office have released the annual 2 Euro commemorative coins of the Vatican City State for 2016. The coin commemorates the bicentenary of the Gendarmerie Corps […]
Vatican City Commemorates Gendarmerie Corps
Following on the success of the Disney Princess collection, the New Zealand Mint is releasing another series of licensed Disney themed coins. This time the series will be dedicated to […]
New Zealand Releases ‘Frozen’ Coins
Japan has officially unveiled the last coins in the Japanese 47 Prefectures coin program. The final coin in the series is dedicated to Japan’s most famous prefecture, Tokyo. For the […]
Final Coins In Japan Prefecture Series
The popular animated series Yu-Gi-Oh! is currently in its 15th consecutive year of broadcast in nearly every major market around the world including the US, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and […]
Yu-Gi-Oh! Silver Coin Series Starts With Dualist Yami Yugi
The Italian Mint or IPZS(Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato) has released the second commemorative two Euro coin for 2016. The coin commemorates th 2200th anniversary of famous Latin playwright […]
Italy Celebrates Ancient Playwright
Portugal has released the first installment of a new series of numismatic collectors coins entitled Heroes of Sport. The series in called the Heroes of Sport series and is meant […]
Portugal Starts Heroes of Sport Series with Football Legend
The Art Mint has in recent history released some truly innovative coin designs and their latest offering seems sure not to disappoint expectations. 2016 Greek Myths “Oedipus and Sphinx” coin […]
Greek Myths Series Launches with 1st Beautiful Coin
“To boldly go where no one has gone before” or perhaps in this case to boldly go where no mint has gone before. In order to celebrate the 50th anniversary […]
Canada To Issue World’s First Delta Shaped Coin
The National Bank of Denmark and the Mint of Finland have announced that starting in 2017 moving forward all Danish coins will be produced by the Mint of Finland. This […]
Mint of Finland To Produce Danish Coins
Following the release earlier this month of the Fireman’s silver $15 coin, the Royal Canadian Mint has released the details of the remaining three coins in the National Heroes Collection […]
Canadian National Heroes Series To Benefit Red Cross
The Pobjoy Mint is issuing a special ultra high relief piedfort coin to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was first […]