Dr. Busso Peus Nachf., D-Frankfurt
The overall estimate of 934,000 € for 868 lots at Peus’ autumn sale resulted in a total hammer price of 1,713,000 €, i.e. an increase of 83 %. Above all, it were the collection’s peculiarity and outstanding quality which encouraged the bidders.
Stack’s Bowers Galleries, USA-Baltimore
Stack’s Bowers Galleries concluded the 2016 auction season at Baltimore Convention Center. United States Coins Surpass $6.5 Million in Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ Official Auction of the November 2016 Whitman Baltimore Expo.
London Coin Galleries in cooperation with Künker, GB-London
On 1 November 2016 the second part of the Preussag collection will be auctioned off by London Coin Galleries in cooperation with Künker in Osnabrück. The material comprises 772 lots of mining coins, estimated at 630,000 GBP altogether.
London Coin Galleries/ Künker, GB-London
On 1 November 2016 London Coin Galleries, in cooperation with Künker, sold the second part of the Preussag Collection. Having been estimated at 630,000 pounds, the end result of the 772 lots with mining coins and medals amounted to 1.6 m pounds (= 1.8 m euros).
Coin Hoard Dates the End of the City Center of Ephesos
Austrian archaeologists recovered a coin hoard in Ephesos which dates exactly when the administrative centre of Ephesos lost its purpose.
Monopoly goes Mycenae
When did you last play Monopoly? With the adaption by Classics researcher Anna P. Judson you will certainly see this classic in a whole new light. Her “Mycenopoly” transfers the board game to 2nd millennium Mycenae.
Our Cartoon: Franklin’s World
Philologist, numismatist and cartoonist Claire Franklin provides insight into her daily thoughts. Recently, near Rome Fiumicino ...
On Open Access
In this contribution, ANS Director of Publications Andrew Reinhard explains why the American Numismatic Society is Open Access” and why any institution, learned society, or publisher, should be, too.
Women in the Seleucid Empire
What part did women play in the rule of the Greco-Macedonian kings? A collection of essays deals with this question by scoping the Seleucid women. Ursula Kampmann has had a look at it.
Workshop on modern technologies for archaeology and numismatics
The University of Padova (I) hosts a workshop on modern technologies for archaeology and numismatics on 3 and 4 November 2016. The title is: ‘Tomography Image Processing Surface and Bulk Characterization Technologies Archaeology and Coins TicTac’.