Stephen Album Rare Coins Auction 39 offers 4,500 lots of Ancient, Islamic, Chinese, World, and Indian Coins as well as Numismatic Literature including the John Sylvester Jr. Collection of Annamese Medals and Orders highlighted by several pieces never-before seen at auction.

On 28th January 2021 auction house Künker offers selected lösers from the Popken Collection. One of them gives us a clue as to what lösers may have been used for. We learn from a book that this coin was distributed as a gift of honour to the princely attendees of the funeral of John Frederick of Brunswick-Calenberg.

The graphic designer Daniel Voshart has given a fresh face to Roman emperors. Thanks to state-of-the-art technology and Photoshop, he created realistic portraits of 54 Caesars. He was helped by coins and ancient texts – and by a professional wrestler …

Heritage Auctions offers seven-figure rarities of US coins in their upcoming auction. The 1787 New York-Style Brasher Doubloon from the Donald G. Partrick Collection is expected to set a new world record in US coinage.

“Between Collectors’ Item, Investment Product and Gambling: The Privy-Marked 2020-W American Eagle” is the cover story of the December 2020 issue of Mint News Quarterly. Find also information about latest technical developments of the minting industry.

On the occasion of his blog’s 10th anniversary, Franky Leuuwerck from Franky's Scripophily BlogSpot launched an online poll about the motives collectors of coins, banknotes, stamps and shares have. Here are the results.

The latest volume of the Bremer Numismatische Gesellschaft presents a monograph on Maldives local coins. In the work, the collector Peter Budgen summarised the knowledge he acquired over decades. Ursula Kampmann took a look at it.

The American Numismatic Association presented the Burnett Anderson Memorial Award and Booster Awards during a virtual event. Here you can learn more about this year’s recipients.

Historian Denise Tonella will succeed Andreas Spillmann in the spring of 2021 as the new Director of the Swiss National Museum.

The Royal Canadian Mint announced that its special Recognition Medal program to date has raised a total of $400,000 for the Breakfast Club of Canada COVID-19 Emergency Fund.