One object next to the other, some curators still think, that’s the art of museology. And they are very surprised, when visitors admit that they found their tour a little bit boring. We need new conceptions to mesmerize traditional and new visitors. The renovated Ashmolean shows how to do it...

A U.S. court sentenced Bernard von NotHaus, private producer of the Liberty Dollar, to 15 years in prison and a fine of 250.000 $. Furthermore the company’s stock of gold valued at 7 million $ was confiscated...

Philologist, numismatist and cartoonist Claire Franklin provides insight into her daily thoughts...

The Museum for Communication in Nuremberg presents a new exhibition on the "Language of Money“...

With the gold price again testing all-time highs, forecasters and observers are – again – speculating on whether this is as high as it will go, or whether bullion is preparing itself for another strong bull run. Alan Demby, executive chairman of the South African Gold Coin Exchange gives us his point of view...

On December 30, 1883, the Ottoman ruler drafted a decree by which he invested the German Emperor William I, his new confederate, into the Golden Order of Merit of his country, called Nishan Imtiyaz. That honor was intended to strengthen the political ties between the German Emperor and the Empire at the Bosporus River...

Stack’s Bowers Galleries realized $13,892,475 over eight U.S. and world sessions conducted March 29-April 2, 2011, continuing its lengthy tenure as the only official auctioneer of the Whitman Coin and Collectibles Baltimore Expo...

U.S. and World Realization Totals Combine to Reach Nearly $14 Million...

The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities has published a list of stolen items in the Internet...

Norges Bank has decided that the 50-øre coin shall be withdrawn from circulation and no longer be legal tender from 1 May 2012...