World Coin News

New circulating commemorative:

"History of Polish Light Music: Czeslaw Niemen"



LINK: National Bank of Poland
LINK: Polish State Mint

SPECIFICATIONS
Composition: Nordic gold, CuAl5Zn5Sn1
Weight: 8.15 g
Diameter: 27.00 mm

Labels: 2009, europe, poland

Posted by Jolan at 3:08 PM | Link | Comments

New bimetallic circulating commemorative:

"Centenary of the first flight by a powered aircraft over Slovenia"



LINK: Edvard Rusjan
LINK: Bank of Slovenia

Labels: 2009, bimetallic, europe, slovenia

Posted by Jolan at 11:21 AM | Link | Comments

New circulating type, smaller, 16 mm instead of the previous 19 mm:



(information and picture by Michael Reissner)

LINK: Central Bank of the Bahamas

Labels: 2009, america, bahamas

Posted by Jolan at 3:21 PM | Link | Comments

New circulating commemorative:

"Centenary of the Banco Nacional de Panama 1904-2004"



(information and image by Michael Reissner)

Labels: 2009, america, panama

Posted by Jolan at 9:55 AM | Link | Comments

"75 years of Dandi March"

Both steel items are from the Bombay mint, but the obverse inscription and ashoka are remarkably different in size.



(image and information by Wolfgang Schuster and Ashwin lobo)

Labels: 2005, asia, dandi, india

Posted by Jolan at 8:10 AM | Link | Comments

New circulating bimetallic commemoratives:



LINK: Banco de Mexico

Labels: 2009, america, bimetallic, mexico

Posted by Jolan at 3:14 PM | Link | Comments

New circulating commemoratives:

"10 dinara: Universiade"
"20 dinara: Milutin Milankovic"

Only 500,000 coins of both denominations have been minted.
The 10 dinar coin features the motifs of the 25th summer Universiade to be held in July 2009 in Belgrade, while the 20 dinar coin features the portrait of Milutin Milankovic, the renowned world geophysicist, engineer, climatologist and astronomer, and was minted to honour the 130th anniversary of his birth.



(images by Ranko Mandic)
(information by Ranko Mandic and Pabitra Saha)

LINK: National Bank of Serbia
LINK: Universiade
LINK: Milutin Milankovic in Wikipedia

Labels: 2009, europe, serbia

Posted by Jolan at 2:20 PM | Link | Comments

New circulating commemorative:



(info and image by P.K. Saha)

LINK: Central Bank of Malaysia
LINK: Malaysian Banknotes Blog

Labels: 2009, asia, malaysia

Posted by Jolan at 10:39 AM | Link | Comments

New bimetallic commemorative:

"Japan prefectures: Niigata"

This coin shows a pair of Japanese crested ibises and a rice terrace.



LINK: Japan Mint

Labels: 2009, asia, bimetallic, japan

Posted by Jolan at 7:00 AM | Link | Comments

New circulating mule coin:

A rare error at the Royal Mint means that tens of thousands of the coins produced earlier this year don't have 2009 stamped on them. Coin experts say the lack of a date makes them worth £50 each, and potentially much more in future.



LINK: Further info

(information by Pabitra Saha)

Labels: 2008, 2009, europe, mule, united kingdom

Posted by Jolan at 11:41 AM | Link | Comments