Our Cartoon: Franklin’s World
Philologist, numismatist and cartoonist Claire Franklin provides insight into her daily thoughts. Recently, in Southern Italy ...
‘Money Matters’ says new British Museum display
‘Money Matters’, a free display at the British Museum running through 9 October 2016, explores the world of money, and individual everyday relationships with it, through a selection of objects drawn from over two thousand years of history.
NGC Grades 35 Millionth Coin
Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® has become the first third-party coin grading service to grade 35,000,000 coins. World coins continue to be the fastest growing segment of NGC’s business.
IAPN Congress in Amsterdam 2016
The International Association of Professional Numismatists held its 65th general assembly from Thursday 5 May to Sunday 8 May 2016, in Amsterdam, Holland. A main topic discussed at the meeting were new international laws affecting the numismatic trade.
New dealers at MA-Shops
MA-Shops is a platform for dealers offering a wide variety of coins and other collectibles. MA-Shops works with a network of especially reputable European coin dealers. Here we present two of them who have joined MA-Shops recently.
Lithuanian 2 euro coin features amber disc amulet
Coins marked with Baltic symbols are currently issued by the Bank of Lithuania. Constituting legal tender, the latest 2 euro commemorative coin features an archaeological find from the Neolithic period: an amber disc amulet.
Heritage Auctions, HK-Hong Kong
Rare patterns and modern Chinese bullion star as total sales soar by 30% at Heritage’s joint World & Ancient Coins and Currency Signature Auctions, held June 22-24, 2016 at Hong Kong.
Fritz Rudolf Künker, D-Osnabrück
From antiquity to modern times, Germany, Europe and the world, and of course especially Russia, these are the topics of the Künker summer-auction from June 21st to the 23rd, 2016.
Fritz Rudolf Künker, D-Osnabrück
Around 3,000 lots achieving a hammer price of 9.2 million euros were auctioned off at the Künker summer-auctions June 21-23, 2016. More than 1,800 bidders participated in the auctions held.
Honors celebrating the 175th anniversary of the Royal Numismatic Society of Belgium
On May 21, 2016, the Société Royale de Numismatique de Belgique celebrated its 175th anniversary with a conference under the title “Belgian Numismatics in Perspective”. Several of the top-class attendees were honored.