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Morton & Eden will sell an extremely rare Islamic gold coin never previously offered for auction. It will be a highlight from their auction of Important Coins of the Islamic World, to be held in London on Thursday April 10, 2014.

CNG’s Electronic Auction 324 offers 771 lots and closes on April 9, 2014. The sale presents the final offering of coins from the 1990s Balkan Area Hoard, Roman Republican coins from the Demetrios Armounta Collections, and Northumbrian coinage.

On Sunday, April 6, 2014 Live Auction 6 of Naville Numismatics Ltd. will start closing. The auction features a selection of 231 lots of Greek, Roman and Byzantine coins, selected with the contribution of NAC’s experts.

Bonhams will sell an archive of rare historical documents, coins and medals created and owned by Augustin Dupré, who worked for both Louis XVI and Napoleon Bonaparte as well as Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. The collection will be on sale in New York on 2nd April 2014 as one lot for an estimated $300,000 to $500,000.

Agora Auctions’ Numismatic Sale #7 is now live and closes April 1, 2014. The auction features among the ancient coins specimens from the famous Goodman collection, but also scarce Confederate States of America notes and pre-Columbian art.

Beginning on March 27, 2014, The Charles A. Wharton Collection will cross the auction block at the Stack’s Bowers Galleries Auction of the Whitman Coin & Collectibles Baltimore Expo. The star of this event will be the 1936 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Carlos Saavedra Lamas.

CNG’s Electronic Auction 323 closing on March 26, 2014 offers 897 lots. There is a broad selection from the early Roman Empire and, among the world coins, aficionados will find a rare Offa penny from Anglo-Saxon England.

Celebrating their 50th years in business Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. bring their 189th Buy or Bid Sale ending on March 25, 2014. This sale is comprised of 349 ancient coins, 40 world coins, antiquities and antique maps.

CNG’s Electronic Auction 322 will be offering 824 lots. The sale features ancient Iberian coins from the Archer M. Huntington Collection, and unpublished drachms of Lysimachos and Marcus Aurelius. The auction will close on March 12, 2014.

Agora’s Numismatic Sale #6 is now live and closes on March 11, 2014 starting at 12:00 noon EST with lots closing every 30 seconds. Auction number six is the auction house’s largest yet with several outstanding specimens among which one of the earliest Islamic types of the Umayyads and a batch of Rosa test strikes.