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Astrid Mitchell

29 Aug. 2024

2 min read

Millions of UK Coins Shelved in Warehouses

The UK banking system is reported to be storing indefinitely around £4 million worth of unwanted copper coins.

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Astrid Mitchell

29 Aug. 2024

7 min read

Note and Coin News

Bank Al-Maghrib has issued new 50 dirham banknote, the third in its new series.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Aug. 2024

1 min read

Raise Your Profile with Coin Issuers Worldwide

The next edition of the Directory of Circulating Coins is currently being compiled, and is scheduled for publication this Autumn. First developed by the publishers of Currency News in 2014, the upcoming issue will be the fourth edition.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Aug. 2024

3 min read

G+D Collection Celebrates 2024 Sporting Events

Commemorative coins are a common way for countries to mark their participation in international sporting events, particularly if they are hosting those events. Less so for commemorative banknotes, but they are becoming more popular.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Aug. 2024

5 min read

Note and Coin News

The Bank of Mongolia has issued a limited edition 5,000 tugrik commemorative banknote to mark the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the central bank and the strengthening of the modern banking system in Mongolia. The banknotes are in the same design as the circulating 5000 tugrik but include a number of new security features.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Aug. 2024

3 min read

Royal Mint Goes into Loss as Demand for Circulating Coins Plummets

The Royal Mint has announced its results for 2023-24, which are in sharp contrast to the success of the previous year.

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Astrid Mitchell

3 July 2024

1 min read

Note and Coin News

According to the Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten (CBCS), a significant milestone concerning the new Caribbean guilder has been reached, namely the printing of the first new banknotes.

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Astrid Mitchell

3 July 2024

2 min read

Q&T Secures Further Contract for Vietnamese Currency

Q&T Hi-Tech Polymer (Q&T), the latest arrival to the polymer substrate market, has announced that it has made remarkable progress since its establishment three years ago by securing its third contract for supply of Polysecure for the Vietnamese currency.

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Alex Sadler

3 July 2024

2 min read

A New Approach for Detecting Counterfeit Coins

Researchers at the Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (CENPARMI) at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada have utilised image-mining techniques and machine learning algorithms to identify flaws in counterfeit coins, enabling greater detection of fakes.

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Astrid Mitchell

29 May 2024

2 min read

Note and Coin News

The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (NBKR) has issued the new 5,000 som banknote, the seventh and last banknote of the fifth series, completing the modernisation that started in May 2023. The new series includes denominations ranging from 20 to 5,000 som – all featuring RAPID HD® Detect from Crane Currency.

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Astrid Mitchell

29 May 2024

5 min read

Some Ups, Some Downs for Mints

Three of the main mints have recently published their annual results for 2023. It’s something of a mixed bag, with overall positive results, but not necessarily driven by circulating coins.

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Astrid Mitchell

30 April 2024

3 min read

Royal Mint Pulls Out of Export Business for Circulating Coins

The Royal Mint (TRM), the UK’s oldest company, has announced that it is to pull out of the market for producing foreign circulating coins and blanks, bringing to an end a 700-year old business in producing coins for overseas countries.

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Astrid Mitchell

30 April 2024

3 min read

Note and Coin News

The National Bank of Poland (NBP) will issue a commemorative 20 zloty banknote in July to mark the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw uprising, a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate the city from German occupation.

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Astrid Mitchell

2 April 2024

2 min read

Note and Coin News

Banco Central República Argentina has confirmed that new 10,000 and 20,000 peso (ARS) notes will enter into circulation in June.

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Astrid Mitchell

29 Feb. 2024

5 min read

Note and Coin News

The National Bank of Ukraine has issued a new commemorative 50 hryvnia banknote entitled ‘Unity saves the world’ on the second anniversary of the Russian invasion.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Feb. 2024

2 min read

Note And Coin News

The People’s Bank of China (PBC) has issued a 20 yuan commemorative legal tender banknote to celebrate 2024’s Lunar Year of the Long (Chinese Dragon), which begins on 10 February.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Feb. 2024

3 min read

What Goes Round Comes Round in the Minting Industry

The start of 2024 has been marked by a series of acquisitions in the minting community.

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Astrid Mitchell

1 Dec. 2023

2 min read

Morocco Rolls out New Note and Coin Series

Bank Al-Maghrib has issued a new coin series as part of its latest round of currency updates. Alongside new 10 and 20 centimes, and ½ dirham, 1, 5 s and and 10 dirham coins, an updated 100 dirham banknote has also been issued as the first in a new note series.

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Astrid Mitchell

3 Nov. 2023

1 min read

Conservation at Heart of New UK Coins

The Royal Mint has unveiled eight new coin designs inspired by flora and fauna across Britain that will soon appear on official UK coins, ranging from the 1p to the £2.

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Astrid Mitchell

3 Nov. 2023

2 min read

A New Association for Mints is Born

At the recent Mint Directors Conference in Ottawa, the Mint Directors Association (MDA) was formally announced. It has now been legally incorporated as a not-for-profit association, and is the successor to the MDC, the looser association of mint directors that has been in existence since 1962.

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