The Istituto Poligrafico E Zecca Della Stato, fortunately known by its acronym IPZS, is responsible for the issuance of money in Italy, and that includes some superb commemoratives. Drawing on Italy's deep, fascinating art and history, the mint has struck some beautiful designs in recent years. This new release is from their Italy as Art series, each [...]
We recently covered the Monnaie de Paris release of a coin commemorating a milestone event in European history, seventy years of continuous peace on the continent. Given the age of the European states, you'd think seventy years of peace wouldn't be that big a deal, but staggeringly, it's actually the longest period without war since the end of the [...]
Kicking off four years ago, the Italian mint IPZS (Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca) launched a couple of series of coins closely linked by a common theme. Called Flora in Art Masterpieces and Fauna in Art Masterpieces, both take the same central theme of nature in classic art, the former botanical and the latter zoological. We covered the 2014 [...]
