The Mint Directors Association (MDA) held a webinar last month titled ‘Change For Coins: How to Harness the Passion of a New Generation of Collectors’, which focused on collectibles and leveraging product launches to grow brand loyalty and optimise commercial opportunities.

‘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.

Interest in precious metals investments continues to grow – attributed in part to investors, both experienced and novel, turning to these products as a safe and secure method of investment. Authenticity and trust generation are particularly important to Sigma Metalytics, a family owned and operated business based in California, USA, that offers precious metal verifiers to individuals and mints alike.

Coin collecting platform Coiniverse enabled purchasing ability on its mobile application at the end of March, following this with an announcement that the first coins sold out within 72 hours.

The Royal Mint has partnered with the United States Mint in ‘a groundbreaking collaboration’ between the Chief Engravers of both mints to produce a design for the 2024 Britannia and Liberty commemorative coins.

The Bank of Estonia (Eesti Pank) has launched a coin collection campaign in collaboration with Estonian-based postal service and logistics company Omniva. The campaign aims to collect one million coins through a pilot programme whereby people can exchange their accumulated coins in selected post offices.

As announced last month, Coiniverse, the coin collecting app set up by the Mint of Finland, has been spun out into an independent startup. Coin & Mint News™ spoke to its new CEO, Mikko Sievänen, about the new company’s plans for development, the role of digitisation in the coin sector, and where he sees both numismatics and Coiniverse in the future.

The East India Company has produced ‘The Crown Coin’, one of the most expensive coins ever produced, to commemorate the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Coiniverse, the coin collecting app set up by the Mint of Finland, has been spun off from the Mint into an independent startup. As an independent startup, the company aims to increase its user base across the globe and create a trusted collector community where mints are readily accessible.

By its very nature, bullion is a valuable and more expensive commodity than standard commemorative coins comprised of nickel, copper or zinc, for example. This can lead to greater scrutiny of the items produced and their provenance.