The Royal Dutch Mint has signed a multi-year agreement with Finland’s Ministry of Finance for the production, marketing, and distribution of circulation and commemorative euro coins.

Titled ‘Change’, the Royal Australian Mint’s 2023 annual report is aptly named for an organisation, and industry, that experienced multiple significant changes over the course of last year.

Minting of the final coins in the new Caribbean guilder series, the 1 and 5 guilder, has been initiated at the Royal Canadian Mint’s facility in Winnipeg, Canada.

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.

Earlier this month, IACA held a webinar titled ‘Cash Visibility: How the Royal Canadian Mint Manages Canada’s Circulation Coins in Real-Time’, in which the Royal Canadian Mint detailed their strategies and systems for managing cash visibility for coin in Canada.

ABC Mint has launched a five coin series entitled ‘Untamed Landscapes’, celebrating the natural beauty of Oceania.

The fourth edition of the Directory of Circulating Coins has now been published. With nearly 200 pages, the Directory is the only guide to every current circulating coin in the world, providing up-to-date information, specification and images on every coin in one concise and easy-to-use volume.

Estonia is set to introduce new rounding rules next year, with the country also planning to cease minting 1 and 2 cent coins.

Earlier this year, the US Mint published a proposal to abolish its Mutilated Coin Redemption Program, relating to the face value exchange of bent and partial coins. Further to the consultation, which concluded at the beginning of July, the Mint published a final rule detailing the permanent closure of the program.

The US Mint’s coin production has increased for the second month in a row, from 235.2 million coins in July to 405.2 million produced in August – with the latter consisting solely of cents (254.4 million) and quarters (150.8 million). The Mint has not reported any nickel or dime production for the fourth time this year.

HM Precious Metals opened this year by announcing the addition of powder blanks producer Reischauer to its portfolio, followed shortly by the acquisition of Royal United Mint. Coin & Mint News™ spoke to Thomas Frey, CEO of HM Precious Metals, about its aim to provide a complete portfolio, recent rebrand from Heimerle + Meule, and future plans for the Group.

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.

To commemorate 100 years of the Swiss Franc in Liechtenstein, CIT has released a new coin design crafted in smartminting® Ultra Deep Relief. The coins depict a three-dimensional coloured model of the Rhine Valley with topographical accuracy on the reverse, symbolising the bond between Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

Earlier this year, the Belgian Treasury launched a #spendyourchange campaign encouraging citizens to use their loose change, following warnings from several key trade federations in Belgium of an artificial coin shortage.

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 Mint of Finland (Suomen Rahapaja) is to cease operations and wind down in an orderly manner by next year, bringing to an end a 160-year business which first began minting coins in 1864.

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 Centrale Bank van Curaçao en Sint Maarten has unveiled the designs for the new Caribbean guilder coins and banknotes via simultaneous events held on both islands. The designs draw inspiration from the World Under the Sea where fish swim freely, seeing no borders, noted the Bank during the unveiling.

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.

Global Coin Solutions was established in Toronto, Canada in 2015 with charitable support at the heart of the business. Coin & Mint News™ spoke to founder and CEO, Scott Hutchings, about the company’s ethos and process, the challenges facing coin repatriation, and why collaboration is key to efficient and sustainable coin recirculation.