Cash, Creativity and Catching Up at The Coin Conference

The 2022 Coin Conference, which took place in Amsterdam from 17-19 October, attracted 160 delegates from 45 countries and 92 organisations, including central banks, mints, academia, and industry suppliers.

The Coin Conference is the only event to focus on circulating coins as part of cash strategies and, with three years having elapsed since the last event (in Rome in 2019), there was plenty to talk about.

There were two pre-conference workshops – the first from the IMDA Customer Task Force (CTF) for central banks on ‘Coins for Cash: What the Public Wants’. It followed the pattern of the CTF workshops at previous Coin Conferences in bringing together national authorities to discuss the key issues and latest priorities for circulating coins. This time the focus was on the role of coins in the cash cycle in times of crisis, and the needs, and wants, of the public.