Philologist, numismatist and cartoonist Claire Franklin provides insight into her daily thoughts. Recently, at the triumphal procession ...

Alabama exempts the gross proceeds from the sales of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion, and money from sales and use tax for five years. The law is a sales-and-use tax exemption on U.S.A. coins and currency and precious-metals bullion sales.

Konstantin Dochev has written a comprehensive study on the coins of the Byzantine ruling family, the House of Palaiologos, which were minted between 1259 and 1396 and circulated in the Bulgarian kingdom. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at the study.

Those who were not able to bid during Obolos 9 will have a second chance. Due to too many bidders trying to place their bids, the computer crashed and the auction will be repeated.

Shanna Schmidt Numismatics Inc. has a new and improved website. The new website shares the same visually beautiful photos that her previous web gallery displayed, but now the client can purchase coins directly via the website from her.

Returning a coin purchased at the US Mint will be a bit more difficult in the future as the institution announced to change its return policy. The reason behind this move is the excessive abuse of the outgoing return policy.

After 15 years Klaus Meyer-Steffens has stepped down as chairman of the European Vending Association Coin-Group for retirement. Elected as his successor was Ingmar Gründel.

Four of Beatrix Potter’s famous cartoon characters will be shown on a series of new coins minted by the Royal Mint. The coloured Silver Proof 50p coins will feature the likenesses of Peter Rabbit, Flopsy Bunny, Mrs Tittlemouse and a mouse from ‘The Tailor of Gloucester’.

Atlas Numismatics has updated their website with 847 new coins, medals, and tokens at fixed prices.

From 19-23 March 2018 the Künker-auctions 304-306 offer numismatic treasures from sophisticated collections including a series of early Greaco-Persian portraits, Aes Grave, mining coins, as well as coins and medals from the Habsburg Dynasty plus collections of Dortmund, Münster and Mainz coins and medals. And there is more into it than that!