Stephen Album Rare Coins held its Auction 28 on May 18-20, 2017 at its offices in Santa Rosa, California. The total price realized was $1.495 million on an estimate of $1.12 million.

CNG presents Auction 397 closing on 17 May, 2017. This e-auction features ancient coins, World and British coins and medals from the J. Eric Engstrom Collection, and Continental currency from the Estate of Dr. Robert B. Beckett, Jr.

Stack’s Bowers Galleries will offer ancient and world coins and world currency at their May 2017 Online Auction from May 17-18, 2017. Outstanding pieces are a Persian daric and a Shah Jahan Mohur from the Moghul Empire

On May 16 and 17, 2017, the Heidelberger Münzhandlung will conduct two auctions. Auction 71 entails select world coins with a focus on Germany as well as a Lorraine collection. Auction 72 is devoted to a specialized collection of German fractions after 1871 of the finest quality.

On May 16 and 17, 2017, the Heidelberger Münzhandlung conducted two auctions. Both of these witnessed outstanding results, for instance 116,000 euros for the rarest gold coin of the German Empire and 80,000 euros for an Ansbach medal.

During the first half of the 20th century the Banque de France exported its know-how in producing banknotes all over the world. CGB offers in their forthcoming live auction on 16 May 2017 153 rare banknotes from this period. Some have been unseen on the market so far.

From 16 to 18 May 2017 Sincona AG will be auctioning off a plentitude of material from all over the world in four auction catalogues comprising a collection of Byzantine coinage and an extensive selection of Swiss coins featuring many rarities. Highlight is certainly the so far biggest collection of Swiss shooting medals.

In the four Sincona Auctions 37-40 of May 16-18, 2017 collectors could see many fascinating offers. Ancient rarities, gold issues from all over the world, and special collections. The collection of Swiss shooting talers arose particularly fierce bidding battles.

Naville Numismatics’ Live Auction 31 features a selection of 573 lots of Greek, Roman, Byzantine coins, all chosen with contribution from NAC’s experts. The auction will close on 14 May 2017.

Planned tightening of the laws on protection of cultural property in the US deepens the divide between collectors and opponents of the art market. The pretext of the war against terrorism is used to cover particular interests and massive personal interrelations with the economy.