IMDA – a New Force for Circulating and Collector Coins

In August, the MDC (Mint Directors Conference) announced the formation of a new professional association – the International Mint Directors Association (IMDA). To date, 19 mints have already agreed to join. At the same time, it announced a related organisation, the International Mint Directors Network (IMDN), which will continue to be the forum for networking within the minting industry. The MDC itself will now refer only to the actual Mint Directors Conference, the next of which takes place in Ottawa next October.

Coin & Mint News™ spoke to Ross MacDiarmid, former CEO of the Royal Australian Mint and Acting Executive Director of the MDC, a role which has now been transferred to the IMDA, about the reasons for the creation of the two organisations, the challenges facing the mint community and what the IMDA hopes to achieve.