The United States Mint calls for artists to design the obverse of the commemorative coin honoring the first manned moon landing. This will be the first time that a curved version of a five ounce silver coin is produced and offered by the United States Mint.

The French mint La Monnaie de Paris has a new director. Aurélien Rousseau not only has years of experience in the Paris community politics. The Doctor of History has also advised the Prime Ministers of France.

Damiano Cappellari is an ardent coin enthusiast, a nummophile, as he says. His “praise of numismatics” doesn’t want to teach but to inspire. It accomplishes this through poetic walks through the world of coin collecting, as Björn Schöpe has learned.

The 1st Conference of the Museum of the Bank of Albania will be held in Tirana, Albania, on 14th-15th of June 2017. The conference will be a two-day event discussing “Monetary history in Albania” and “Money and Banking Museums”.

Numismatik Lanz has been in business for 70 years and published recently auction catalogue 164 featuring coins and medals from antiquity, the Holy Roman Empire, the Vatican, and a collection of pilgrim badges which will be auctioned off on May 23, 2017. To mark the milestone birthday, Lanz organizes a competition.

Heritage Auctions Europe recently sold a 10 dukat “Portugalöser”, struck by the city of Deventer in the year 1640 to compete with Portuguese coinage circulating in Brazil, for $179,000.

British Museum podcast shows how to deface a coin May 18, 2017 – In the British Museum’s podcast series “Curator’s Corner” a curator presents objects...

In the night to Monday, May 15, 2017, Catherine Bullowa-Moore has died aged 97. Having been dealing with coins since 1953, she was one of the few women who, already in the 1950s, managed to succeed in numismatics.

On May 19, 2017 Roland Auctions will offer the seventh of many specialized auctions containing collections from the estate of Dr. Alan York. One of them is a collection of World War II Numismatics comprising over 300 lots and many rare specimens of coins, tokens and exonumia.

During a burglary at the coin dealership R&K Coins in Springfield (USA), the thieves stole thousands of dollars worth of coins and banknotes. In order to get into the shop, they used a brute method, one would rather associate with action films.