World Coin News

New circulating commemorative:

"SHIPS: Selandia"



LINK: Denmark National Bank

SPECIFICATIONS
Composition: Aluminium Bronze, 92%Cu6%Al2%Ni
Diameter: 27.00 mm
Thickness: 2.35 mm
Weight: 9.30 g
Edge: rim with interrupted milling
Designer: Torben Ebbesen

Labels: 2008, denmark, europe, ship

Posted by Jolan at 11:47 AM | Link | Comments

New silver commemoratives:

"UEFA Championship"



LINK: Austrian Mint
LINK: Euronumis

SPECIFICATIONS
Composition: silver .800
Diameter: 28.50 mm

Labels: 2008, austria, europe, silver

Posted by Jolan at 10:32 AM | Link | Comments

New circulating coin:

"1 piastre 2006"



(information and image by Wolfgang Schuster)

LINK: Bank of Sudan

Labels: 2006, africa, sudan

Posted by Jolan at 11:04 AM | Link | Comments

New circulating commemorative:

"1 somoni: 800 aniversary of the birth of Mavlono Jaloliddin Rumi"



LINK: National Bank of Tajikistan
LINK: Coins of CIS and Baltic countries
LINK: Numismaster by Krause

SPECIFICATIONS
Composition: CuNi
Weight: 5.20 g
Diameter: 24.00 mm
Width: 1,60 mm
Mintage: 100,000
KM#16

Labels: 2007, asia, tajikistan

Posted by Jolan at 11:05 AM | Link | Comments

New bimetallic circulating commemorative:

"Russian Regions: Astrakhan region"



LINK: Bank of Russia

SPECIFICATIONS
Diameter: 27.00 mm
Edge: corrugated with inscription

Labels: 2008, bimetallic, europe, russia

Posted by Jolan at 8:25 AM | Link | Comments

New circulating types. The coats of arms have few design differences. The edges are different and also are the materials:

25 colones 2005, brass, plain edge
50 colones 2006, brass plated steel, segmented reeding
500 colones 2006, brass plated steel, segmented reeding



(information by Wolfgang Schuster)

Labels: 2005, 2006, america, costa rica

Posted by Jolan at 9:34 AM | Link | Comments

For the first time since 1968, the Royal Mint has chosen new designs for the reverse of Britain's small change:



The six coins, ranging up to 50p, can be arranged to form the outline of the royal shield of arms, which is embossed in full on the 1 pound coin.

Labels: 2009, europe, great britain

Posted by Jolan at 3:00 PM | Link | Comments

New coin set:

According to Elizabeth Marriott, secretary of the Tristan da Cunha Association, this is an official legal tender set:



(image from Joel Anderson)

The set is available from Joel's site:

LINK: www.joelscoins.com

Labels: 2008, africa, bimetallic, tristan da cunha

Posted by Jolan at 1:40 PM | Link | Comments

New commemorative:

"Year of the Rat"



This New Year Commemorative one yuan Coin for 2008 is a legal tender of the People's Republic of China.
China issues such commemorative one yuan coin every year, since 2003 (Sheep year).

Labels: 2008, asia, china

Posted by Jolan at 10:55 AM | Link | Comments

New circulating commemorative:

"250th anniversary of the Hindu festival Kimari Jatra"



Obverse: Kumari temple where she lives (situated at Durbar square in the Kathmandu city), listed UNESCO World heritage Site. Legend above the temple reads "Sri Kumari Jatra 250" (= 250th year of Kumari festival), below the temple two dates: the left one is mint date VS2064, right date is when the festival started (Sambat 1127).

Reverse: fully dressed image of living Goddess Kumari at the center, above the legend is 'Sri Kumari', below is the denomination, left and right side has Nepal in Nepali and English.

(information and image by Wolfgang Schuster)

LINK: Central Bank of the Kingdom of Nepal
LINK: Kumari in Wikipedia

SPECIFICATIONS
Composition: CuNi
Diameter: 29.00 mm
Weight: 8.6 g
Edge: plain

Labels: 2007, asia, nepal

Posted by Jolan at 12:19 PM | Link | Comments