For years, claims have been appearing on the Internet that the 2002 Greek 2-euro coin, which has the letter „S” in one of the stars, is extremely rare and worth several thousand, even tens of thousands of euros. Such information regularly generates great interest, especially among
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The Croatian National Bank, in cooperation with the Croatian Mint, presents a new numismatic issue titled „Croatian Shepherd” from the „Autentic Croatia” series. The issue includes three gold coins and two silver coins, and is dedicated to the domestic breed of dogs that for centuries has accompanied the life and work of Slavonian rural farms. The coins bear the year
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Among the numerous coins from the period of the Roman Republic, a special place is occupied by the silver denarius of Julius Caesar depicting an elephant crushing a snake or a dragon. The coin of 49 BC, at the time of the beginning of the civil war between Caesar and Pompey, is one of the most recognizable examples of political propaganda.
There are few banknotes whose history can compete with the opulence of their artistic design. The French 5,000 francs of 1918, known as the „Flameng”, belong to this group. The banknote combines allegorical figures, a Parisian panorama and rich ornamentation with an unusual destiny: it was created from a project for an entirely different denomination, produced
One of the rarest ducats of Maria Theresa appeared at the auction of the German house Münzenhandlung G. Hirsch Nachfolger. The gold ducat minted in Prague in 1745, offered as lot 3168 at auction 410 held on September 24 and 25, 2026, was estimated at 15,000 euros and sold
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During the period when it was just a hobby, and especially later when it became a scientific discipline, numismatics constantly developed. This development was accompanied by frequent innovations that enabled collectors, archaeologists, and historians to more easily access information (in the form of catalogs), properly sort and preserve it (first as numismatic
The Central Bank of Ireland presented a new commemorative 2-euro coin on September 25, 2026, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Irish rock band U2. The coin depicts all four members of the band, Adam Clayton, Bono, The Edge and Larry Mullen Jr., and its designer is
The outbreak of the First World War caused an exceptionally large shortage of small coins in Austria-Hungary. Several days before the start of the war, due to a tense situation that did not bode well, the population began to massively withdraw their savings from savings banks. At the same time, gold coins disappeared from circulation, and immediately afterwards
The anchor symbol belongs to the group of the oldest symbols. Therefore, it is not surprising that it appears already on ancient money. The anchor holds the ship with its weight, and it is a symbol of permanence, endurance, serenity and loyalty. The heaviest anchor was in the ancient trier (Greek warship
On September 21, 2026, the Croatian National Bank put into circulation a new 2-euro commemorative coin „City of Vukovar”. The issue is part of the „Croatian Cities” series and is dedicated to a city of exceptional historical, cultural, and symbolic significance for the Republic of Croatia. The coin was issued in a total quantity of 500,000.
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The Croatian National Bank and the Croatian Mint presented a new numismatic issue dedicated to Ivan Vučetić, a Croatian pioneer of dactyloscopy whose system of personal identification by fingerprints left a lasting mark on the development of modern criminalistics. The issue entitled „Innovations of Ivan Vučetić“ is part of the „Croatian Innovators“ series, and
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The Croatian National Bank has announced new Croatian commemorative and numismatic issues for 2026. The most attention is certainly being drawn by the new 2-euro commemorative circulation coin „City of Vukovar”, which will be issued in as many as half a million copies, which is a record quantity so far for Croatian commemorative euro coins.
In numismatics and collecting, we encounter almost daily two seemingly opposite situations that actually have the same cause: In both cases, the underlying problem is usually neither the coin nor its objective market value, but the fact that one party's expectations are not met, after which an ordinary difference
Collectors and numismatists usually see only the finished, struck coin, while the demanding process that precedes minting mostly remains hidden to them. Italian coin designer and sculptor Sandra Deiana recorded the creation of the original model for the Luxembourg 5-euro collector coin dedicated to the red squirrel. Several weeks of research, drawing,
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