Standard Catalog of World Coins 1601-1700 Now Available
The Standard Catalog of World Coins 1601-1700 is now available from Krause Publications. Edited by George Cuhaj and Tom Michael, this fifth edition presents some of the fastest-rising retail values for world coins...
Important coin collection offered at Sotheby’s by Hispanic Society of America
The Hispanic Society of America will offer its collection of rare coins as a single lot at Sotheby’s. The collection consists of almost 38,000 coins and is expected to raise between $25 million and $35 million...
Foreign Currency Collection Stolen
A large collection valued at over $200,000 has been stolen in Larnaca, Cyprus. Approximately 500 notes were taken. Most were rare, but low grade Latin American notes, from 1890-1970. Some rare high value notes from Brazil, before 1926 and many more...
Numismatic discovery: 1766 Rouble of Catherine II linked to official portrait
At The New York Sale XXVII-XXIX in January 2012 Baldwin’s is going to offer a 1766 Rouble of Catherine II. Recently it has been discovered that the portrait of the Tsarina pictured on the coin is to be linked to a monumental portrait. The coin is estimated to sell for around $ 1,000,000...
Coin kicks off UN International Year of Cooperatives
The Australian launch of the UN International Year of Co-operatives kicked off on November 22, 2011 at Parliament House with the release of a $1 collectible coin produced by the Royal Australian Mint recognizing this auspicious year...
Medal commemorates Nobel Prize in Medicine winner Gertrude Elion
The Jewish-American Hall of Fame issues a medal in honor of Nobel Prize in Medicine winner Gertrude Elion. Elion was only the fifth female Nobel laureate in Medicine, the ninth in science in general...
World Money Fair 2012 – On the Way to the Olympics
From 3 to 5 February 2012, the 41st World Money Fair will take place. The upcoming Olympics will dominate this year’s event. Invited as Guest of Honour is The Royal Mint who has prepared the numismatic side of the largest sports event worldwide for four years. But this is only one of many attractions …
Our Cartoon: Memento Mori
Have you ever listened to the secret thoughts of ancient statues? Cartoonist Madeleine Voegeli presents her series Memento Mori...
The Passau Treasure
The international press has reported about the treasure of the state library in Passau found by a concierge cleaning up a store room. Now, the library has published pictures of the “treasure” on the Internet. Everybody is able to see for himself, what’s the real value of these coins...
Coin Invest Trust donates coins to the British Museum
Coin Invest Trust (CIT) donates a representative assortment of its products to the British Museum’s coin cabinet. So CIT is backing an eternally up-to-date idea: collecting modern coins in museums before they become expensive historic documents!