Royal Australian Mint offers up production pieces to the public
Unique production pieces from the manufacturing process at the Royal Australian Mint will be made available for the public to own through an official auction held by Downies Australian Coin Auctions in Melbourne on 26 to 28 May 2015.
Italian scholars fight for free photographs in archives
How to work academically without making photocopies from books? In Italy a reasonable solution had come into range but then it was all backpedaling. A petition fights now for the interests of scholars.
Largest Anglo-Saxon coin hoard tops list of latest UK treasure finds
On 10 February 2015 the largest Anglo Saxon coin hoard found since the Treasure Act began was announced. The hoard is composed of around 5,200 Anglo-Saxon silver pennies and was found by a metal-detecting rally.
First all-Celtic coin auctions in Britain
Chris Rudd, the Celtic coin specialist based in Norfolk, will hold six e-Auctions a year which are dedicated exclusively to Ancient British coins. The first of these all-Celtic coin auctions is already online. It will be closing on Sunday 15 March.
With jackhammers against cultural heritage of humanity
A video has provoked worldwide consternation: the film shows once more radical IS fanatics destroying unscrupulously the cultural heritage of humanity. This time they hit Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrians, once among the world’s biggest cities.
Israel’s largest gold hoard discovered
The largest hoard of gold coins ever found in Israel was recovered from the seabed in the ancient harbour in the Caesarea National Park. Almost 2,000 gold coins from the Fatimid period were discovered by a group of divers who will not receive any fee, though.
The Lokrians of Opous
There is this wonderful coinage with the unpronounceable name: the starters with Demeter’s head on the obverse and fighting Ajax on the reverse. A monograph has now been published that enlightens us about the Lokrians of Opous. Ursula Kampmann has taken a closer look at it.
The Napoleonic era as mirrored in its medals
From 19 February to 28 June 2015 the Liechtenstein National Museum in Vaduz presents the exhibition “The Napoleonic era as mirrored in its medals”. Highlight of the exhibition is a leather casing with over 130 bronze medals featuring the medal history of the Emperor.
The Royal Mint reveals Queen’s fifth coin portrait
The Royal Mint has unveiled a new coinage portrait of The Queen. It was designed by Jody Clark and is only the fifth definitive portrait of The Queen to appear on circulating coins since her accession to the throne in 1952.
Nano Life
542 million years of evolution on our planet: what fills entire libraries has been condensed by Coin Invest Trust on a single coin, compressed on a nano chip.