CIT presents coin depicting the Giant Girdled Lizard
A dragon on a coin: The extraordinary Giant Girdled Lizard (smaug giganteus), a dragon-like lizard species home to South Africa, is depicted on CIT’s newest coin. This issue will be this year’s contribution to the CIT series “Shades of Nature”.
Classical Numismatic Group
CNG’s Electronic Auction 420 features 696 lots including Greek and Central Asian pieces from the David Nelson Collection, and rare Roman Republican coins from the impressive Andrew McCabe Collection. The sale ends on 9 May 2018.
Savoca Coins
Silver Auction 22 of Munich-based auction house Savoca Coins is online. The auction features 607 lots and offers material for collectors with limited budget ranging from ancient to Islamic and world coins. The live closing is going to start at 6pm CEST 29 April 2018.
Naville Numismatics Ltd.
Naville Numismatics’ Live Auction 39 features a selection of 702 lots of Greek, Roman, Byzantine coins, all chosen with contribution from NAC’s experts. The auction will close on 29 April 2018.
FBI-agents as archaeologists
Has the FBI actually dug for the gold of Gettysburg? According to professional treasure hunters, there are still gold bars worth 55 m. $ hidden in the ground near Benezette, Pennsylvania. The gold was meant for Lincoln's troops.
German Bundesbank has opened its vaults
The Money Museum of the Deutsche Bundesbank hosts a special exhibition named “Gold. Treasures at the Deutsche Bundesbank” which will contain gold bars and rare gold coins from all eras. The exhibition runs until September 30th 2018.
Our Cartoon: Franklin’s World
Philologist, numismatist and cartoonist Claire Franklin provides insight into her daily thoughts. Recently, in Alexandria’s shopping mall ...
Rutgers digitizes the Badian Collection of Roman Republican Coins
The Rutgers University Libraries has digitized a collection of 1,250 Roman Republican Coins from the Badian collection.
The medals of Frederick William II
Manfred Olding, in collaboration with Gunter Mues, has finished the next volume of his Prussia catalogs. This time, he addresses the medals of Frederick William II. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at the book “Die Medaillen Friedrich Wilhelms II.”.
NGC grades its 40-millionth coin
Numismatic Guaranty Corporation graded more than 40,000,000 coins. It is the first third-party coin grading service who ever reached this threshold.