Our Cartoon: Franklin’s World
Philologist, numismatist and cartoonist Claire Franklin provides insight into her daily thoughts. Recently, in the Senate, while Cicero accused Catilina …
On National Heroes and Nationally-Owned Enterprises
In 1975, Venezuela nationalized its oil industry – an important step in the long and eventful relationship between the country and its oil supplies. A gold coin commemorates the event. It is one of the rarest pieces of Venezuelan numismatics.
Nomos AG, CH-Zürich
Alan Walker discusses some of the remarkable hammer prices of Nomos 24. The exciting didrachm with the portrait of Homer fetched 360,000 CHF.
Exhibition in Paris: Marvellous Moneys
From gold to silver, feathers, pearls and bracelets: people have used so much different means of payment in the human history. An exhibition in the Monnaie de Paris Museum shows the whole range of them.
Paul Burkhard’s Fünfliber: A Classic Piece Celebrates its 100th Birthday
On 19 May 2022, SINCONA presented a new publication on Swiss numismatics. Hanspeter Koch has dedicated a monograph to the five-franc coin with the portrait of an ‘alpine herdsman’. And the really special part is this: this book is available in ‘very fine’ or ‘extremely fine’ condition.
Metal Detectoring Couple Finds Gold Coins
Phil and Joan Castle have been metal detecting together for over 30 years until they found a 14th century purse with five gold coins. Their find has been declared treasure and was sold at auction where it doubled the estimate.
Schuler presents the “Visual Die Protection” in an Online Seminar
With its “Visual Die Protection” Schuler has developed an image-based monitoring system for dies that helps avoid expensive repairs, downtimes, or even total failures. How exactly this works was explained in an online seminar.
ColorEYEzed: CIT’s Ocean blue
Only 8 to 10% of humanity has blue eyes. And as rare things are sought-after: No other eye color was made the subject of so many successful songs. Now CIT has dedicated a coin to blue eyes – with spectacular color printing technique.
Our Cartoon: Franklin’s World
Philologist, numismatist and cartoonist Claire Franklin provides insight into her daily thoughts. Recently, at a consignment …
Atlas Numismatics
Atlas Numismatics has updated their inventory with 153 new high-quality coins, medals and tokens at fixed prices.