Every year Japan Mint holds the International Coin Design Competition (ICDC) with the objective of encouraging creativity and enhancing the artistry of coin designs. Now the winners of 2009 have been elected...

The Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts has its own reading of how German laws apply. Coin collector Alexander Krombach can vouch for that who had to fight for the return of his coin collection although the action for receiving stolen goods was abandoned...

Ponterio & Associates, a division of Bowers and Merena Auctions, realized $1,608,082 as the Official Auctioneer of the June 2010 Whitman Coin & Collectibles Baltimore Expo.

The history of coins and currencies is not the focus of the MoneyMuseum, but an expedient. This very new museum wants to encourage its visitors to think about their own relationship to money...

The Federal Mint Swissmint is taking the commemorative year for Albert Anker as the occasion to salute the famous Swiss artist with the official 2010 gold coin...

With Pierre Bastien the numismatic society looses one of the profoundest experts on Late Roman coinage...

Mr. Ross MacDiarmid has commenced his position at the mint on June 7, 2010...

It takes a certain amount of courage to face a fast bowler on the cricket pitch but in the history of the game, only one man has received a medal for bravery on the field of play...

Samuel Pepys mentions a medal made by John Roettiers by order of the King of England in 1667. This intriguing piece will be auctioned at Künker’s on June 17. Here you can learn about the historical background.

It is called the most beautiful of all English coins, the coin type of young Queen Victoria that depicts her as Una leading the British lion with her scepter. The motif harks back to a 16th century poem that praised yet another queen. The Künker summer auction now offers one of these rare specimens for a pre-sale estimate of 50,000 euros.