Our Cartoon: Franklin’s World
Philologist, numismatist and cartoonist Claire Franklin provides insight into her daily thoughts. Recently, during a session on medieval numismatics at the International Numismatic Congress in Warsaw …
Season’s Greetings – Frohe Festtage –メリークリスマス – Sretan Božić: Numismatic Christmas Cards to CoinsWeekly
Every year, the CoinsWeekly staff receives a wealth of Christmas cards. Most of them are way too beautiful to be thrown away after New Year’s Eve. After all, many of them focus on numismatic themes. Here are our most beautiful Christmas cards of the past years.
An Expert Opinion on Sponsianus
Did a Roman emperor called Sponsianus exist and mint coins? A recent study claims this, but it has been widely refuted by experts. Aleksander Bursche and Kyrylo Myzgin from the University of Warsaw, present their opinion on this matter.
ICOM Launches Emergency Red List of Ukraine
The International Council of Museums has launched the “Emergency Red List of Cultural Objects at Risk – Ukraine”. The list is intended as a tool for the identification of looted and stolen cultural objects from Ukraine.
Steve Album is Moving Its Offices
Steve Album Rare Coins will be moving to a new office building in Santa Rosa.
Italy’s Cuisine in All Its Numismatic Colours
Food is Italy’s flagship. Reason enough for the dolce vita nation to celebrate its diverse food culture with a coin series – in exuberant colours. In addition, collectors from abroad can look forward to an exciting novelty.
CIT Celebrates Historic Instruments – Astrolabe
CIT dedicates a new 2-oz silver coin in Antique Finish and ultra high relief to the astrolabe. Since late antiquity, this instrument has enabled us to exactly determine the position of a celestial body – the foundation of modern astronomy.
CIT’s “Cyber Queen – The Beginning”
CIT has its finger right on the pulse of pop culture: “Cyber Queen – The Beginning” is dedicated to the science fiction sub-genre cyberpunk.
Master and Servant: The 1528 Homage Taler
There are vanishingly few early modern coins that depict a peasant. The great exception is the so-called 1528 huldigungstaler (“homage taler”) of Habsburg Ferdinand I. We ask why, of all things, peasants feature so prominently on this representative coin.
Stack’s Bowers Galleries
Stack’s Bowers Galleries will be offering various strong collections at the January 2023 NYINC auction. Among them the Anthony J. Taraszka Collection with Polish rarities and the Sigma Collection of Russian coins.