In 2013, the project “Money and the Church in Northern Europe 1000-1200: Practice, Morality and Thought” was initiated. Its coordinators are Svein Gullbekk, Oslo, und Giles Gasper, Durham. From November 23 to 25, 2011, they hosted a conference whose proceedings have now been released. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at it.

Following the issue of the £2 coin to mark the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta, the Royal Mint is to strike precious metal variants of this coin.

The fan community of the Campbell’s dwarf hamster is ever growing. More and more people enjoy the presence of the little rodents at home. The latest issue in the award-winning Wildlife Protection series, created for Mongolia by Coin Invest Trust, is dedicated to this popular pet.

Due to construction work part of the drive mechanism of the roller coining machine was probably discovered at Hasegg Castle in Tyrol. This technological sensation boosts the city’s candidature for becoming a UNESCO world heritage site.

The Popken and Horn collections are just two of many highlights of the 2015 Künker Summer Sale which will be held on June 23-25 in Osnabrück. 4,000 lots offered, with a pre-sale estimate of 5.5 million euros, include numerous rarities from all around the world – from Medieval to Modern Times.

The Künker Summer Auction Sale was full of numismatic highlights: the hammer price for the only pattern of the very first (West-)German commemorative coin was 28,000 euros, a Hamburg bankportugalöser was sold for 36,000 euros, a Nuremberg 6 ducat piece for 80,000 euros, and a 1692 10 ducat piece of the Holy Roman Empire for 130,000 euros.

On June 6, the new permanent exhibition of the Dresden Coin Cabinet opened its doors. Shortly before then, the G7 Finance Ministers had visited the not yet fully completed presentation. We talked to Dr Rainer Grund, Director of the Dresden Coin Cabinet, about what happened backstage.

In terms of numismatics, Copenhagen has much more to offer than ‘just’ the Coin Cabinet. Several coin collections are on permanent display, as in the Thorvaldsen Museum and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Not to forget the hoard finds in the National Museum of Denmark!

The British Museum hosts a display on medals of the ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV in its Room 69a until 15 November 2015. ‘Triumph and disaster: medals of the Sun King’ explores the ‘Medallic History’ of Louis’ reign.

On 6 June 2015 the Coin Cabinet of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden was re-opened in the Dresden Residenzschloss. After decades Germany’s third largest coin collecting boasting some 300,000 objects has eventually returned to its place of origin.