The National Bank of Poland has released (18th December) new gold collector coins which highlight the National Bank’s repatriation of their pre-war gold reserves back onto Polish soil. Stored in the vaults of the Bank of England since the end of the Second World War, the government of the day feared soldiers of the invading […]
Poland: 140th anniversary of the founding of Krakow’s National Museum remembered on new silver Proof coin
The National Bank of Poland has issued new silver Proof crown coins in celebration of Krakow’s National Museum, which was founded 140 years ago. Established in 1879, under a resolution of the Kraków City Council, it is now the oldest and the largest Polish museum, which is known as the National Museum. The initial collection […]
Poland: Decisive battle ensuring Polish sovereignty remembered on new silver Proof coins
The National Bank of Poland has issued (21st March) new collector coins which remember the centenary anniversary of a particular battle that would help make permanent Polish statehood a reality after the Great War. As the Polish State emerged from the ruins of three defeated and collapsed empires: German, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian, further fighting with Soviet Bolsheviks […]
Ireland: Latest collector crown coin salutes Bram Stoker’s Dracula in time for Halloween 2018
The Central Bank of Ireland has officially launched (24th October) their latest collector coin which is in salute to the work of Bram Stoker, author of one of the world’s most chilling novels: Dracula. As Halloween approaches, the Central Bank of Ireland has launched these commemorative coins in salute to one of the world’s scariest tales […]
Rocket flight SL-11 launches an opportunity to touch space with your own hands
On the day when the world learned the name of the first private lunar passenger, who paid a hundred million dollars for the honor, new American startup Decron Club made a step realizing towards thousands of dreams “to touch space for a dollar.” Spaceport America, NM — On Monday, September 17th at 8:09 a.m. MT, UP […]
Klimt on coins
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), an Austrian symbolist painter, was a founding member of the Art Nouveau and Vienna Secessionist movements — both of which were reactions against the more traditional style of 19th-century art. Art Nouveau was a decorative style of art seen not only in paintings but in architecture, advertising, jewelry, and many other forms that […]
Poland: Silver crown coin salutes decisive and epic Battle of Hodów
The National Bank of Poland has issued (6th June) new collector silver coins which mark one of Poland’s most epic and decisive battles that was fought between the Kingdom of Poland and Crimean Khanate forces in June 1694 in the Ruthenian Voivodeship, or, the Principality of Galicia–Volhynia. The battle has been compared by historians and military tacticians as the “Polish Thermopylae,” […]
Poland: National hero August Emil Fieldorf features on latest “Enduring Soldiers” series silver coin
The Narodowy Bank Polski have issued (23rd February) collector coins which are part of the series “The Enduring Soldiers Persecuted by the Communists,” introduced last year, with the first coin dedicated to the memory of Danuta Siedzikówna (1928-1946). The latest and second coin in the series pays tribute to the national hero August Emil Fieldorf […]
Poland: Exquisite gold and silver coins issued in ongoing Historical Kings series, featuring Sigismund II Augustus
The National Bank of Poland have issued (7th December) two new coins in their ongoing and popular coin series entitled “The Treasures of Stanislaw August” which highlights the succeeding monarchs of the Polish state from the year 992 and the reign of King Bolesław Chrobry to the last Polish King Stanisław August Poniatowski, whose reign […]
Poland: Precursor to independence, National Committee, is celebrated on new silver coin
The National Bank of Poland have issued (15th November) a new coin which remembers the auspicious day when the establishment of Poland’s National Committee. The famed legislative body undertook the arrangements of the re-establishment of Polish independence after more than 146 years of partition. With the precarious state of politics becoming more evident between the […]
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