Month: January 2020
France Great War–Jubilation 10 Euro Named Most Historically Significant COTY dated 2018
A French coin commemorating the end of World War I is in the running for the 2020 Coin of the Year award. The Monnaie De Paris’ 2018 FR France Silver €10 Great War Colorized (Peoples’ Jubilation) won the COTY’s Most Historically Significant category. The category is devoted to coins commemorating events, institutions or individuals deemed […]
January 28, 2020
Three Countries Take Most COTY Category winners for Coins Dated 2018
Three countries took home more than one Krause Coin of the Year Category Award for coins dated 2018. Austria was the big winner with three coins, Lithuania and Australia won with two coins each. For the first time in the history of the award, half of the category winners were colorized. Austria won the “Best […]
January 23, 2020
Silver Hemidrachm of Umar
Coins of the Abbasid Governors of Tabaristan exist today in large numbers because they were used by merchants on the Silk Road, the ancient trade route that spanned more than 7,000 miles from Constantinople to China. The Kingdom of Tabaristan, located in modern-day northern Iran, was also located on the shore of the Caspian Sea, […]
January 14, 2020
Umayyad Caliphate Gold Dinar
The Umayyad dinar was the first coin to articulate the Islamic Faith. The first one was believed to have been struck in the year 77 of Hijra ( 696/7AD) in time for the pilgrimage season so that every Muslim could take home a statement of their faith as a coin in their pocket. It also […]
January 6, 2020