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Every year, The Royal Mint’s Annual Coin Sets present a minted snapshot of the UK’s most memorable moments. Among the 2018 themes just revealed are the birthday of Prince George of Cambridge, the jubilees of the Royal Air Force and Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’.

Today’s Constitution of the Italian Republic came into force on 1st January 1948 as the basis of the state’s democratic order. On that occasion Italy issued two coins, a 2 euro circulation coin, and a 5 euro collector coin.

During the FUN Convention in Tampa a 1851 $20 Liberty struck on a large cent planchet error was sold for nearly half a million dollars. Error coin expert Fred Weinberg knows this coin perfectly and tells its amazing history in this video.

Philatelists and numismatists value Richard Borek as an expert partner. In 2018 Brunswick’s specialist mail-order company for collectors’ items celebrates its 125th anniversary. The fourth generation sees digitization as the key to a successful future.

In a burglary in Indianapolis (USA) numerous objects of value were stolen comprising a large coin collection. Police found the 75-year old owner dead in his residence as victim of a homicide.

For enthusiasts of engraved gems, the National Museum in Krakow is one of the must-known places to experience the full width of this particular art form. A new catalogue written by Pawel Golyzniak celebrates some of the masterpieces in the museum’s collection.

Labeled “The Tyrants of the Thames,” the inaugural exhibition in a planned multi-year series of displays from the collection will showcase more than 500 superbly preserved examples of portrait coins of English and British rulers minted over the last 1,400 years.

Spanish Auction house Cayón Numismática relaunched their website. The website is being complemented by a new smartphone app which offers various useful services to clients who participate in the auctions.

Only days after the 46th Annual New York International Numismatic Convention Kevin Foley, the organizer, announces important changes regarding the event in 2019. Among others the date was shifted to avoid conflicts with the World Money Fair.

Numismatics is much more than a listing of coin types. John Talbot demonstrates this in his new book about the coins of the Brittonic Iceni. He uses the material to draw conclusions on the social structures of the tribe. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at the book.