The Royal Mint Celebrates 50 Years of the 50p
To celebrate fifty years of Great Britain’s revolutionary seven-sided 50p coin, The Royal Mint has released a commemorative 50p bearing the original 1969 Britannia New Pence design in different qualities. Some collectors might even strike their own 50p coin.
Homer Simpson on Tuvalu’s Gold Coin
Everybody knows them: in 2018, The Simpsons became the longest-running primetime scripted show in television history. Now the Perth Mint has struck a 1oz gold coin featuring Homer Simpson on it on behalf of Tuvalu.
A Numismatic Restoration Project Needs Your Vote!
For the first time ever, a restoration project in the South of Italy was able to save thousands of coins with private aid. Now the researchers are applying for a prize for this work and need as many online votes as possible. Help them and give them your vote!
Coin Dealers From All Over the World at Coinex in London
There are fairs that have been an integral part of the coin trade’s agenda for decades. Coinex is one of them. Also this year, many important auction houses and coin dealers came to London. They made use of the opportunity to participate in the auctions at the same time.
New ICOMON Board Members Elected
The International Committee for Money and Banking Museums has elected new board members. The new chairperson is Ute Wartenberg. The forum of the International Council of Museums represents almost 200 member institutions from all over the world.
Numismatic Project among Art Fund’s Winners of New Collecting Awards
The Art Fund is a British institution helping museums fulfilling their tasks. As many museums are not able to acquire new exhibits, the art fund supplies funding for buying new objects. Now this year's winners were announced. A numismatic project is among them.
Ships, Colonies & Commerce
Christopher Faulkner dedicates more than 400 pages to a single type of Canadian token described in the literature as Breton 997 to Breton 1001! Ursula Kampmann had a look at the publication and discovered everything that can be written about such emissions.
NumisSearch Offers Special Conditions for New Customers – A Perfect Opportunity for Trying Out Their Services
More than 6,000 users per day, more than 50,000 registered customers that spend an average of more than 10 minutes on the website – that is what the platforms NumisSearch, PhilaSearch and AntiquesSearch have to offer. For every auction house operating in the field of numismatics that decides to try out the platform with three auctions, NumisSearch offers special conditions.
Coins for the Gods
The organizers of the international conference “Coins for the Gods, Coins for the Merchants” have released the conference program of the event at Athens on October 24 to 25, 2019.
Albert Beck Yet Again Managing Director of World Money Fair
The World Money Fair Holding GmbH (WMF) has announced that Albert Beck is again taking on the role as the company’s Managing Director. Gitta Künker is stepping down as Managing Director.