Online Coin Club
Online Coin Club: what is it?
In short: an online resource for coin collectors. It provides a list of countries and provinces which produce or have produced coins; information about the coins themselves such as their characteristics, history, valuations etc. There will also be a platform to manage your collection/s, share information with others, exchange and buy/sell coins.
To get a general idea of the information part, you can browse the New Zealand pre-decimal coins, for example this page.
Online Coin Club: what can I do?
The site needs your help! The long-term vision for this site is for it to be a community project. A community of people to do research, publish and verify data, share their collections and generally make the whole thing work.
New Guinean Mark Ten Pfennigs 1894 from New Guinea, German Mintage: 23,930 Material: Copper |
Cretan Drachma Two Lepta 1900 from Cretan State Mintage: 793,079 Material: Bronze |
British West African Pound Shilling 1938 from British West Africa Mintage: 57,806,287 Material: Nickel Brass |
Pound Sterling (pre-decimal) Half Sovereign 1887 Jubilee head Mintage: 1,070,567 Material: Gold |
| The Times of India | Finally, country gets first made-in-India note |
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| India July 20, 2018 | The Reserve Bank of India has released a new Rs 100 denomination banknote in the Mahatma Gandhi series with a Swachh Bharat logo in lavender colour. |
| SIBC | New $5 banknote to be introduced next year |
| Solomon Islands July 19, 2018 | The Central Bank of Solomon Islands will introduce a new five dollar note, part of its ongoing reforms on security and design specifications. |
| BBC | Why Canada is suing Australia over a magic possum |
| Australia April 18, 2018 | The Royal Canadian Mint has a bone to pick with its Australian counterpart - a possum bone that is. The Canadian corporation is suing the Royal Australian Mint over a coin that celebrates the popular Possum Magic children's book series. Their issue is not with the furry marsupial but with Australia's method for printing colour on to coins, for which Canada claims to own the patent. |
| RTE | Central Bank may cease printing euro notes |
| Ireland March 9, 2018 | The board of the Central Bank is to consider a recommendation from management to cease printing euro notes at its mint in Sandyford, Co Dublin. The proposed change would have no impact on the supply of banknotes in Ireland, the majority of which are produced elsewhere. |
| BBC | The Indian coin that set off millions of messages |
| India February 21, 2018 | India's central bank is reckoned to have sent out hundreds of millions of text messages in the last couple of days - all part of a rearguard effort to protect the value of the Indian currency. Don't be too alarmed, the Indian economy isn't about to tank - not quite yet, anyway. The bank's herculean campaign is only designed to ensure the integrity of the country's humble 10 rupee coin - worth just 10 US cents or 10 UK pence. |
| Reserve Bank of Australia | Next Generation of Banknotes: $50 Design Reveal |
| Australia February 15, 2018 | The Reserve Bank has today revealed the design of the new $50 banknote. As with the existing banknote, the new $50 features portraits of Aboriginal writer and inventor David Unaipon and the first female member of an Australian parliament, Edith Cowan. The new banknotes will be released into general circulation in October 2018. |
Featured Blog Articles
The 1920 No Mintmark Australian Shilling
The Museum Victoria numismatic collection has a large number of pattern and proof coins in its collection, acquired mostly from the collection of the former Melbourne Mint, but also from other collections including that of the National Gallery of Victoria. One of the coins that is documented as being transferred from the National Gallery of Victoria collection is 1920-dated Australian shilling with no mintmark. All other known 1920-dated Australian shillings have an M mintmark beneath the date, and no literature makes mention of a no mintmark coin: it has apparently gone unnoticed due to its mis-attribution in the Museum Victoria collection as a 1920M shilling.
On Coins, Sites, Relational Databases and Why It Matters
Some thoughts on what lead me to build this site and why things are not as trivial as they seem (and why not always simple is better).
Online Coin Club needs your help!
Online Coin Club starts a "bounty for information" campaign. Contribute some content and you can get a bag of money for it! A small bag of money really, but still...