Degussa Group announces the acquisition of the Schellhorn & Roth GmbH & Co. KG precious metals refinery in Pforzheim, Germany. With the acquisition of this well established business, Degussa expands its activities beyond just the trading of precious metals products.

The Italian Mint has issued its annual Brilliant Uncirculated set, which includes BU examples of all eight circulating coins and one of the circulating commemorative 2-euro coins for 2014, in honor of Galileo Galilei.

The Grand Canyon is one of the most impressive natural wonders on our planet and a worthy subject to mark the start of a new coin series: “Spectacular Landscapes”. By choosing a powerful combination of silver, marble and colours, Coin Invest Trust has truly imbued this spectacular landscape with life.

Classical Numismatic Group’s Electronic Auction 334 offers 578 lots closing September 3rd from 10 AM ET. The auction includes i. a. fractional coins in the Greek section, various Roman Provincial, Republican, and Imperial issues and a selection of early Islamic coinage.

When in Palermo, you’re always in for a surprise. Or did you know that this city is home to Europe’s ugliest fountain? And to rare evidence of what victims of the inquisition thought about the tortures they suffered? Accompany us on the last part of our journey.

We all know that cemeteries are increasingly lacking customers. More and more survivors shun the high cost of a burial place. But the Munich City Cemeteries being that desperate to resort to shrunken heads by now… Here you can read a Bavarian farce about a shrunken head that reminds of a play in a community theater – especially in the light of its double standards.

Numismatist and cartoonist Jeremy Bostwick discovers a different point of view of antiquity and its coinage. Today’s cartoon is dedicated to the period of the tetrarchy: Maximian, the Media Mogul!

Scalps illustrate quite drastically what victorious Indians did to their enemies. Is it impious to still display these trophies when descendants want to bury the remains of their ancestors? To that question the Karl May Museum recently had to find an answer.

American Numismatic Society launches “Art of Devastation”: an important new web-based research catalogue of the thousands of art medals, commemorative medals and tokens produced in response to this major conflict.

The Bavarian Numismatic Society had launched its journal 'Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte' in 1949. Thanks to Gorny & Mosch, all volumes of the JNG published since then are now available for free on the internet.