Interview with The Mint of Gdansk!

_News!

_{Mint of Gdansk presented themselves for the first time in Berlin this year (2018), during the last World Money Fair.}

_{The Mint of Gdansk, located in Poland, seems to want to emancipate on the European market. New kid on the numismatic scene world will try to rely on its values to make progress, and to boost the market with new ideas.}

_{Mint of Gdansk could meet the people responsible for this new workshop monetary policy.}

_{‘This is indeed our first coin show in Berlin, but the time had come for us’ ... explains Agata DANIELS, salesman of Mint of Gdansk. ‘We have participated in several exhibitions in Asia, and they brought many positive contacts and transactions. So we have decided to come to this exhibition, one of the first in the world, to meet numismatics passionates and coins-lovers society, and present our coins and our know-how at potential new customers’.}

_{Born in 2010 in Poland, in the heart of Gdansk, port city of 450,000 inhabitants, located in the north of the country, on the edge of the Baltic Sea, this new monetary workshop private did not talk about him during his first 8 years of existence.}

_{The idea of the boss of the Mint, Lukasz ROSANOWSKI, was well to perfect his proficiency, to develop and to experiment with new way of working with new collection themes, to perpetuate it, to then embark on the international market.}

_{This is what he does after eight years of existence, and some experience!}

_{‘PASSIONATE OF COINS ... ‘}

_{‘Our boss is passionate about numismatics since its most early childhood’, explains Agata DANIELS, ‘and it was normal for him, to choose a profession based of his passion.’}

_{And when passion rhyme with profession, one can often build big things ...}

_{With customers in Europe of course, but also in Asia and the United States, the Mint of Gdansk, who only works with numismatic professionals intends to make his place on the international market, developing its activities outside Polish borders.}

_{The key piece issued by the Mint, remains today the currency of 5 dollars released last year, in 2017, and hit for the Niue Islands.}

_{‘It took a lot of work and focus on the part Mint technicians.’}

_{The coins was issued in silver, 999 copies for the entire world.}

_{‘We have also released a very beautiful catalog, with all coins referenced from 2010 to 2017. It also took us three years but we are very pleased with the result, which presents our special knowledge on the topic.’, says Agata DANIELS.}

_{CATACLYSMS AND EARTHQUAKE}

_{Six people work today in the Mint of Gdansk. These are essentially designers and creators, as well as sales people. The Mint does not have a workshop production and parts are not manufactured internally.}

_{The officials explain:}

_{‘we work with other Mints for that, especially with the national Mint of Poland which hit our pieces right now, but on the other hand we are exclusive distributors of our products. All the pieces imagined at home, so are marketed by our team’.}

_{Currencies are minted basically in metals precious, gold or silver, and all are imagined in the offices from Gdansk. Five pieces are created each year, and the Mint hope to increase this production in the coming months, with the arrival new international customers.}

_{For the year 2018, a coin is scheduled for this month of May. It will be called ‘Earthquake’.}

_{‘We are working on this series this year’, explains Agata DANIELS, ‘also with a currency on hurricanes’.}

_{In this theme, 2% the sum of the coins sold, will be donated to associations that come helping people who suffer from these tragedies. Thay will also find the monetary program of this 2018 issues, a piece devoted to ‘Imperial Art’ with the Pharaohs of Egypt, and a another currency dedicated to China and Mesopotamia. These pieces will contain inserts of amber and agate. Another currency is also provided, for the Greek market, with an insert of blue stone.}

_{ONE PIECE ON}

_Immortality

_{‘In the next series, for our next issues, we are planning a theme on technologies of the future, explains Agata DANIELS, ‘and we consider issuing new series, with thematic still no used in numismatics. We are working on a coin that will be themed immortality.’}

_{One way to say: we are going to have to watch the Mint of Gdansk grow in the years to come, and that name should be bright on market in the numismatic world!}

  Author: Agata Daniels