Coins and Medals

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1899 Philadelphia Pennsylvania Merchant Token Philadelphia Record News Paper
Home Of The Philadelphia Record 1899. Birthplace Of The Declaration Of Independence 1776.

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Issued on 7 May 1982   500 Schilling coin to celebrate 500 Years of Austrian Printing



Obverse: Coat of Arms of the 9 Austrian States & Austria
Lettering: REPUBLIK ÖSTERREICH
500 SCHILLING

Reverse: Ancient printing system, date at bottom
Lettering: 500 Jahre Druck in Oerterreich
BODLAK   1982

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Issued by Spain in 2000 - 1,500 Pesetas (Millenium)



Front: Antique printing press left of letters MILENIO inside geometric design
above (value) 1500 / PTAS (Pesetas)
(top-left, mintmark) ♔M (Spanish Mint, Madrid)

Back: Head King John Charles I (left, 1975-2014)
legend: (ruler) JUAN CARLOS I REY DE ESPAÑA
(low-left/right, spacers/dots) •
(bottom, year) 2000

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Issued in 2010.  5 Dollar coin - Ivan Fyodorov                    (Cook Islands)



Obverse: Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, ruler, country and value; "ELIZABETH II COOK ISLANDS 5 DOLLARS"
Reverse Lettering: Ivan Fyodorov   Иван Фёдоров   1510-1583    2010

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Issued on 4 October 2017 to celebrate 100 years of Association of Czech Graphic Artists HOLLAR (Prague)



Obverse: Coat of arms, historic printing press
Lettering: ČESKÁ REPUBLIKA 200 Kč ČM
Translation: Czech Republic, 200 Korun

Reverse Lettering: Hollar SDRUZENI CESKYCH UMELCU GRAFIKU HOLLAR
1917-2017 MD
Translation: Association of Czech graphic artists
Hollar 1917-2017 (MD = mintmark)

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Issued in 2010      (Ukraine)
Published in Moscow on 1 (11) March 1564, Fedorov's Apostol is the earliest precisely dated book printed in Russia.



Front: above there is the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine with the semicircular legend НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine); in the centre against the background of the quill pen there is depicted the matrix plate of a page from the `Apostol` book; beneath there are the coin face value 5 ГРИВЕНЬ (5 hryvnias) and issue year 2010.

Back: there is a conventionalized portrait of Ivan Fedorov; to the left of the portrait there is depicted his imprint, to the right - his life years 1510/1583; above there is the semicircular conventionalized inscription ІВАН ФЕДОРОВ (Ivan Fedorov)

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Issued in 2007                (Ukraine)
The Ostrog Bible is the first complete printed edition of the Bible in Church Slavonic, published in Ostroh, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (modern territory of Ukraine), by the printer Ivan Fyodorov in 1581 with the assistance of the Ruthenian Prince Konstantin Ostrogski.



Obverse: there is a conventionalized fragment of the first page ornamental headpiece of the Ostroh Bible, which serves as the background for the Small National Emblem of Ukraine (above) and for the inscription: НАЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ/ БАНК УКРАЇНИ (National Bank of Ukraine) in the center. Below there is the face value and the coin mintage year - 100 ГРИВЕНЬ (100 Hryvnia) / 2007, designation of the metal Au 900, weight in fineness 31.1, and the logotype of the National Bank of Ukraine Mint.

Reverse: there are conventionalized portraits of Ivan Fedorov and Kostiantyn Ostrozkyi holding the opened book and the conventionalized inscriptions: ОСТРОЗЬКА БІБЛІЯ (The Ostroh Bible) (above) and 1581(below).

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Bronze medal from 1930           Ottmar Mergenthaler

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Medal commemorating the opening of his studio in Aalst by printer and publisher Dirk Martens in 1473.



Obverse: Left-handed portrait with beret; around this names of his contemporaries: 'Columbus - Morus - Erasmus'.
Reverse: Map of Europe with open book. Inscription: 'Dirk Martens Aalst 1473-1973'. On vz. and kz, the designer's name: 'Aglane'. Bronze, 80 mm, 328 grams.

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Issued in 1993 - 100 Lire coin for the 100th anniversary of the Bank of Italy

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1000 Dram Coin from 2014 -  Voskan Yerevantsi                          (Armenia)

Voskan Yerevantsi (1614 - 1674) was an one of the first Armenian publishers. In 1666-1668 the first printed Bible in Armenian was published.



Obverse
A page from the "Shakespeare" collection, and the first Armenian printed "Bible", date above, denomination below

Script: Armenian

Lettering:
ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ՀԱՆՐԱՊԵՏՈՒԹՅԱՆ ԿԵՆՏՐՈՆԱԿԱՆ ԲԱՆԿ
2014
1000
ԴՐԱՄ

Translation:
Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia
1000 Dram

Reverse
The graphic work of sculptor Yervand Kochar "Voskan Yerevantsi"

Scripts: Armenian, Latin

Lettering:
ՍԿԱՆ
ԵՐԵՎԱՆՑԻ
400
ամյակ
VOSKAN
YEREVANTSI

Translation: 400th Anniversary of Voskan Yerevantsi

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100 Lei coin issued in 2018. 330 years since the printing of the Bucharest Bible




Obverse
The portrait of Prince Șerban Cantacuzino, who ordered the printing of the Bucharest Bible, and an excerpt from the Bible; the inscription "ROMANIA", the face value "100 Lei", the coat of arms of Romania and the year of issue "2018".

Lettering:
ROMANIA
100 Lei
2018

Reverse
The coat of arms of Șerban Cantacuzino printed inside the Bucharest Bible and the inscription "330 DE ANI DE LA TIPARIREA BIBLIEI DE LA BUCURESTI" in an arc. 330 years since the printing of the Bucharest Bible

Lettering: 330 DE ANI DE LA TIPARIREA BIBLIEI DE LA BUCURESTI

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Issued on 23 April 2014 to celebrate 175 years of the newspaper 'El Comercio'               (Peru)

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Issued on 12 April 2020 for the 200th anniversary of the birth of Petőfi Sándor      (Hungary)






Obverse: A portrait of Petőfi Sándor, the 'fiery poet' based on an 1846 ink drawing by Miklós Barabás; designer at bottom left H (Andrea Horváth). Theme at right PETŐFI SÁNDOR and quote below A korláttalan természet / Vadvirága vagyok én (I am the wildflower of nature without boundaries), at left, years of birth and death 1823-1849. Wildflower illustrations surrounding the right edge.
Reverse: The printing press of the Landerer and Heckenast printing house, which, in addition to the 12 points of the Hungarian Revolutionaries of 1848, also reproduced one of Petőfi's best-known poems, the Nemzeti dal (National Song), an outstanding piece of poetry from the 19th-century Hungary; designer at bottom left XI (Zoltán Kovács), face value at top right / FORINT, mint mark and date at left BP. 2023. State name at right MAGYARORSZÁG (Hungary).

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Issued in 1992 - 5,000 Pesetas (V Centenary Discovery of America - 4ª series)     (Spain)
Image of a printing press