tabbs Posted February 22, 2007 Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 The Danish central bank issues a new series of International Polar Year coins. The first design comes out this year (in late March), with the other two to follow in 2008 and 2009. Each design will be issued in three different versions with basically the same look: * a 10 kroner coin that can be had at face value (brass, mintage 1.2 million) * a 100 kroner silver commem, see link below (mintage 50,000 - price ~300 kr) * and a 1,000 kroner gold coin (mintage 6,000 - price ~2,500 kr) http://www.royalmint.dk/C12571460044841F/s...olar_sammen.jpg As far as I know, several other countries participate in the program as well. Here is more about the International Polar Year http://www.ipy.org/ ... and here is some info about the Danish issues: http://www.royalmint.dk/dkm/uk/specialdocu...33;OpenDocument Interesting, for example, that the gold used for the 1,000 kr gold coins is from Greenland ... Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted February 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 several other countries participate in the program as well Like these for example: Armenia: http://www.cba.am/curcommem.asp?coins=65 Australia: http://mintissue.ramint.gov.au/mintissue/p...asp?code=801478 New Zealand: http://stamps.nzpost.co.nz/Cultures/en-NZ/...versaryInfo.htm Russia (no pix yet): http://www.cbr.ru/eng/bank-notes_coins/mem..._coins/Plan.asp And probably more. The IPY office teamed up with Samlerhuset/MDM ("world's largest independent numismatic wholesale company"), and they in turn will surely find more participants ... Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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