The Banco Central de Nicaragua has released into circulation (1st October) new commemorative five-cordoba (U.S. $0.144) banknotes that are part of the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Central Bank of Nicaragua, which came into being on the 16th September 1960. Successors to the Banco Nacional de Nicaragua, a commercial entity […]
Poland: New silver and colour glass Proof coins released to mark the 700th anniversary of the consecration of St. Mary’s Basilica in Kraków
The National Bank of Poland has released (22nd May) new silver Proof coins with a stained glass insert to mark an extraordinary anniversary. This year, 2020, is the 700th anniversary of the consecration of the Gothic St. Mary’s Basilica in Kraków, as the history of this historical church goes back to the 1220s. According to […]
Poland: New commemorative gold and silver coins remember the centenary anniversary of the birth of Saint John Paul II
The National Bank of Poland has issued (14th May) new gold and silver collector coins which are in observance of the centenary anniversary of the birth of Saint John Paul II. Remembered as the first-ever Polish Pontiff of the Holy See, John Paul II was the charismatic personality, who, for many in his homeland, hastened […]
Poland: New gold coin marks repatriation of gold reserves onto Polish soil
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,” […]
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