The Royal Mint Celebrates 50 Years of the 50p
To celebrate fifty years of Great Britain’s revolutionary seven-sided 50p coin, The Royal Mint has released a commemorative 50p bearing the original 1969 Britannia New Pence design in different qualities. Some collectors might even strike their own 50p coin.
Homer Simpson on Tuvalu’s Gold Coin
Everybody knows them: in 2018, The Simpsons became the longest-running primetime scripted show in television history. Now the Perth Mint has struck a 1oz gold coin featuring Homer Simpson on it on behalf of Tuvalu.
A Numismatic Restoration Project Needs Your Vote!
For the first time ever, a restoration project in the South of Italy was able to save thousands of coins with private aid. Now the researchers are applying for a prize for this work and need as many online votes as possible. Help them and give them your vote!
Classical Numismatic Group
CNG’s online auction features 619 lots with Sicilian bronze issues and Roman aurei from the Alpine Collection. The sale is rounded out by a handful of crude but rare and historically interested Irish copper issues from the Cities of Refuge during the Great Rebellion.
Our Cartoon: Franklin’s World
Philologist, numismatist and cartoonist Claire Franklin provides insight into her daily thoughts. Recently, in Sicily ...
Éditions Victor Gadoury, MC-Monaco
On 15 and 16 November 2019, the Gadoury auction offers something for every collector – at the highest level: From the finest ancient coins to coins from all over the world and to the second part of the spectacular collection of a gentleman from the House of Savoy.
Coin Dealers From All Over the World at Coinex in London
There are fairs that have been an integral part of the coin trade’s agenda for decades. Coinex is one of them. Also this year, many important auction houses and coin dealers came to London. They made use of the opportunity to participate in the auctions at the same time.
Stephen Album Rare Coins, USA- Santa Rosa (CA)
Three interesting collections helped to attract bidders to the sale. One major highlight from the collection of Dr. Axel Wahlstedt was a Mughal zodiac ½ rupee, the first of its kind offered at public auction. It realized a price of $41,650.
Kolbe & Fanning
Kolbe & Fanning offers the personal library formed over half a century by numismatic bookseller George F. Kolbe. The auction features not only those works discussed in Kolbe’s reference volume of 2012, but additional items acquired in the years since.
Frankfurter Münzhandlung Nachf. GmbH, D-Fankfurt am Main
With Auction 153 Frankfurter Münzhandlung continues its long tradition. The auction’s core is an extensive collection of Gold Coins of the German Empire – 257 single lots, featuring almost exclusively objects of outstanding grade.