The Royal Mint has scooped The Wales Quality Centre’s prestigious Innovation Award 2013 for its revolutionary new high security coinage currency system iSIS. iSIS enables not just coins, but the whole cash cycle to be more secure.

Could the USA save money by replacing the $1 note with a $1 coin? According to the authors of a new Fed staff paper no, because the costs could even explode.

CNG’s forthcoming Electronic Auction 321 closing on February 26, 2014, offers 895 lots. This sale features a variety of fascinating coins, including a number of issues from the Cimmerian Bosporos, featuring a very rare hemiobol of Nymphaion.

Live Auction 5 of Naville Numismatics Ltd. will take place on internet, start closing on Sunday 23rd February 2014, when the Live session will begin. The auction features a selection of 220 lots of Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins.

The Royal Australian Mint has released the 100th edition of Mint Issue and to celebrate this major milestone has created the Mint Issue App for the iPad. The app takes Mint Issue to a new level, introducing interactive coin displays, videos and much more.

Italo Vecchi has published an updated edition of his famous ‘Italian Cast Coinage’ of 1979. This catalog of all of the known types of cast coinage used in Rome and central Italy between the seventh to third centuries BC takes now into consideration the many specialized studies which have appeared in the last decades.

A very generous couple of collectors donated 1,200 Persian coins to the Israel Museum, most of them minted for the Palestinian provinces. Among these coins a drachm may be the first known to be minted for the province of Judah.

Philologist, numismatist and cartoonist Claire Franklin provides insight into her daily thoughts. Recently, in the abbey’s library ...

When gold medals are handed out at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in February, athletes will receive silver medals plated with gold as the price of gold rose. The medals also feature particles of the Chelyabinsk meteorite.

The University of Düsseldorf provides a data base with about 60,000 descriptions of ancient coins, minted between the seventh century BC and the end of the minting period of cities in Asia Minor in 276 AD. It is accessible online for researchers and laymen.