‘Change For Coins: How to Harness the Passion of a New Generation of Collectors’ is the title of the Mint Directors Association’s upcoming webinar focusing on collectibles and leveraging product launches to grow brand loyalty and optimise commercial opportunities.

The 2025 World Money Fair opened its doors to thousands of visitors earlier this year. Held 30 January to 1 February, the Fair welcomed over 13,600 visitors and more than 300 exhibitors from 50 nations to the annual event held in Berlin, Germany.

The 32nd Mint Directors Conference is scheduled to take place from 27-29 April in Cape Town, South Africa. The event, co-hosted by the South African Mint Company, aims to explore the fusion of traditional minting practices with modern technological advancements.

The World Money Fair Technical Forum has announced the first set of presentations for next year’s event, which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 29 January, whilst nominations are open for the MDC 2025 Coin Awards, which are set are set to be presented at the 2025 Mint Directors Conference (27-30 April) in Cape Town, South Africa.

The Coin Conference 2024 took place in Lisbon, Portugal’s capital, situated on the River Tagus and one of the oldest cities in the world. Taking place 28-30 October, Lisbon’s combination of the historic and modern was the perfect location for an event focused on the future of circulating coinage and its challenges.

The 2024 IACA Excellent in Currency Awards are set to take place at The Coin Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. This month, Coin & Mint News™ closes its summary of the finalists with the remaining two award categories.

In the August issue of Coin & Mint News™, we provided a brief overview of the ten finalists in the three categories of the 2024 IACA Excellent in Currency Awards. This month, we take a closer look at each of the finalists’ projects in the first category: Best New Commemorative/Limited Circulation Coin.

The Coin Conference takes place in Lisbon, from 28-30 October, against a backdrop of considerable change in the world of circulating coinage. The agenda is busy and full of substance, reflecting the key challenges, and opportunities, that face issuers and producers.

The US Mint’s ‘Liberty Through Perseverance’ $100 gold coin has been awarded the top prize in this year’s Coin of the Year awards. The 2024 awards honour coins dated 2023 in 10 categories of competition, as decided by an international panel of judges.

The finalists for the 2024 IACA Excellence in Currency Awards have been announced, with presentation of the winning submissions scheduled to take place at this year’s Coin Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.