New Gateway to Italian Numismatic
The Italian website Portale Numismatico dello Stato is a public project gathering numismatic material, catalogues, legal texts, essays and a whole journal making all that stuff available to everybody. In addition it offers virtual museum tours and much more...
A collector coin to honour the skills of Fabergé’s Finnish goldsmith
In spring 2012, the Mint of Finland and the Ministry of Finance are planning to issue a collector coin commemorating the skills of Finnish master goldsmiths. The coin would feature two of the famous imperial Easter eggs of Fabergé’s linked to the name of the Finnish smith Henrik Wigström...
Israel Issues a Coin Dedicated to the Prophet Elijah
The Bank of Israel strikes in its long-running “Biblical Art” coin series the 16th annual issue: the Whirlwind. In four silver and gold variations the coins remember the ascension to heaven of the prophet Elijah who was taken by a divine whirlwind...
1st Latin American High Security Printing Conference: Call for Paper
From June 12 to 14, 2012 the 1st Latin American High Security Printing Conference will take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Registration is now open and the responsibles call for papers...
Rupert Wace Ancient Art Ltd., GB-London
For unique gifts this Christmas visit the Mayfair gallery of Rupert Wace Ancient Art. A selling exhibition of works of art from the ancient civilisations of Egypt, the Near East, the Mediterranean and Northern Europe will be held from Friday 2nd to Thursday 22nd December...
Morton & Eden, GB-London
The sale of orders, decorations and medals from various countries was dominated by Russian Orders, notably the Napoleonic War and Order of St George group of five. The sale also proved there is still strong demand for outstanding British gallantry awards...
India prevents coins from being melted to razor blades
Because small Indian rupees were made of stainless steel people melted them down producing razor blades out of them which were worth much more than the original coin’s denomination. Now India has introduced new coins made of alloys...
Translatio nummorum – Roman Emperors in the Renaissance
From November 16 to 18, 2011 experts from all over the world gathered in Berlin to discuss how their Renaissance colleagues started to interpret the wealth of coins they had at hand...
Letters to the editor
Shall collectors donate their collections to museums? Within the last issue we heard some arguments against it. Here are three more letters in favor of leaving coins to public coin cabinets...
Thessaloniki fights for its cultural future
It could be the most important archaeological finding of whole northern Greece: an ancient temple of Aphrodite in Thessaloniki. Though it was partly excavated in 2000, neither the excavations go on nor concrete actions are taken to preserve the rests for future generations...