Numista
A catalog of world coins
Numista lists 6500+ coins from all over the world, with pictures and detailed information. It is even possible to add new coins yourself. Access the catalog.
Your collection online
On Numista, you can manage your collection online. Thus you keep an up-to-date list of your coins, completed with numismatic information provided by Numista. This feature requires a quick and easy registration.
A fantastic tool for trading
Coin trading on Numista is very easy and friendly. Once registered, you compare your collection and other members' at a glance and contact them directly.
Numista also offers a forum, a book shop and more services for numismatists.
3-7-09 Numista is 2 years old!
Its birthday present is a new web hosting.
The catalog now is over 5000 coins, trades explodes with the new trade module, the site gets more than 250 visits every day.
The new web hosting allows for a higher traffic and gets rid of the connection errors some of you noticed lately.
2-1-09 Latin Monetary Union
The idea to standardize coins and money appear long before the introduction of Euro. Already in 1865 France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland fonded the Latin Monetary Union.
This agreement stated that each state had to strike its silver (from 20 cents to 5 francs¹) and gold coins (from 5 to 100 francs) according to common specifications. So these coins could equally be used in any state in the Union
This system had a great success and about 50 other countries chose to strike their own coins according to this specification. United States also thought of joining the Latin Union and created in this view a pattern coin called stella.
Only after WWII, when silver and gold coins were abandoned, the Latin Union had an end.
Such coins were struck for 100 years all around the world. Therefore the Latin Union can be a nice subject of collection.
Example of Latin Union coins:
5 francs, silver 900 ‰, 25 grams, 37 millimeters
France, Switzerland, Italy (5 lira), Uruguay (1 peso)
¹ 1 franc from 1855 is equivalent to 2.60 USD from today.
1-1-09 Season's greetings
The whole Numista team sends you its best wishes for the year 2009. May the year to come be successful for your collection and your coin trades. Above all, may it be very happy for you, your family and your friends!
In 2008, for its second year, Numista grew richer of 3000 new coins. 200 visitors enjoy it every day all over the world. Thanks to all the members of the website, who have contributed to this success.
9-27-08 25 cents Vancouver 2010
Everyone, take a look at your change purse ! The Royal Canadian Mint has launched on last september 10th a new 25 cent coin in order to commemorate the winter Olympic Games of Vancouver that will occur in 2010. The latter represents figure skating and its reverse has been designed by Glen Green.
That's the 8th coin to be launched to commemorate the winter olpympic games of Vancouver 2010. There's also a bobsleigh 25 cent coin that'll be launched later this year, that is to say on october 29th, You can also get these coins from your post office, your numismatic store, the RCM or even the RBC royal bank.
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