The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 marked the beginning of the German Reunification. 25 years later, the historic event is remembered on this Palauan coin. Designed by Coin Invest Trust, the latent image on the coin surface shows the two major protagonists from 1989: Helmut Kohl and Mikhail Gorbachev.

In August 2014, the Singapore Mint unveiled the Macau Lunar Goat, the eighth coin in the Macau Lunar Series, and the first convex coin with the Maitreya Buddha of Vietnam, the seventh issue of the Bhutan World Buddha Heritage Series.

Woolley and Wallis, auctioneers in Salisbury, Wiltshire, will be selling The Christopher Foley, F.S.A., Collection of British Medals of the 15th – 17th Centuries on Thursday October 16th 2014 at 10.00am.

Woolley and Wallis, auctioneers in Salisbury, Wiltshire, were selling The Christopher Foley, F.S.A., Collection of British Medals of the 15th – 17th Centuries on Thursday October 16th 2014 at 10.00am.

From 13 to 17 October, 2014, Gorny & Mosch will conduct its big October sale: a large collection of religious amulets and medals, a nicely assorted collection of numisnautics, an ox hide ingot and a unique silver medallion of Trajan are the highlights of this sale.

On October 13, 2014 the third Sincona Collection auction took place, and once again the prices for Russia were incredible seeing increases of up to 1000 per cent! But the following general sale had strong results, too.

Only very few numismatists have shaped the numismatic course of events like Bernd Kluge, hitherto Director of the Münzkabinett (Coin Cabinet) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. On 1 October, 2014, he is retiring. At this point, Ursula Kampmann would like to dedicate a small laudation to him.

In 2009, Bernd Kluge, Director of the Münzkabinett (Coin Cabinet) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, gave Ursula Kampmann an interview and explained to her what it meant to work in the Münzkabinett in the GDR era and to lead it through the Turnaround and the German Reunification. On the occasion of his retirement on 1 October, 2014, we publish this interview again in CoinsWeekly.

Philologist, numismatist and cartoonist Claire Franklin provides insight into her daily thoughts. Recently, at an archaeological site in Mesopotamia ...

The coin cabinet of the Royal Library of Belgium is in possession of the coin collection and library of Lucien de Hirsch. Among it are 409 Sotheby’s catalogues, recording coin sales, sales prices and dealer names between 1833 and 1869. The database is now available online.