Dillon Gage Named Affiliate of London Platinum and Palladium Market
Dallas-based dealers Dillon Gage Metals became an affiliate of the London Platinum and Palladium Market based on the company’s long standing support of the platinum group metals.
Japan Mint combines color printing and iridescent color shining technology
This silver proof coin commemorates the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Shinkansen bullet train in 1964. It is the first time that Japan Mint uses both color printing and iridescent color shining technology for a single coin.
Silver medal features original shred of papal stole
The canonization of Pope John Paul II was held on 27 April 2014. Lithuanian mint has marked this special occasion by issuing a unique piece of art – a silver medal with an insert. This is a shred of pope’s stole that he was wearing during the visit in Lithuania in 1993.
GDR – Turnaround – Reunification: Museum and Numismatics in Politically Turbulent Times – Part 3
In 2009, Bernd Kluge, Director of the Münzkabinett (Coin Cabinet) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, gave Ursula Kampmann an interview and explained to her what it meant to work in the Münzkabinett in the GDR era and to lead it through the Turnaround and the German Reunification. On the occasion of his retirement on 1 October, 2014, we publish this interview again in CoinsWeekly.
‘Germany – Memories of a Nation’ in the British Museum
The British Museum has opened its new exhibition ‘Germany – Memories of a Nation’ running until 25 January 2015. The display features 200 objects and focuses on a key period of 600 years in Germany’s history, from the 15th century to the present day.
Keys to Rome. An exhibition in four places – and in the virtual world
‘Keys to Rome. The city of Augustus’ is an exhibition organized in parallel in four incredible locations: Rome, Sarajevo, Amsterdam, and Alexandria. Employing the most cutting-edge digital technologies it shows how the virtual museum of the future may look like.
One million registered coins at the Portable Antiquities Scheme
The British initiative Portable Antiquities Scheme looks back on 14 successful years – and one million registered finding coins! Members of the public have enriched enormously our knowledge of the past by reporting their findings.
Emperor Maximilian on schaumünzen and medals
Two important publications written by Heinz Winter at once deal with the gorgeous presentation pieces of the ‘last knight’: the catalog of the collections of the KHM Vienna and two articles in the catalog of the exhibition on Maximilian in Mannheim. Ursula Kampmann has taken a closer look at both books.
Attempted burglary in Wisconsin
Men ambushed a coin dealer in the US. When the dealer turned home from a coin show they broke up his car.
On the day of the auction, Sincona is forced to postpone its auction sale by six months
This is the nightmare of every auction house: all of a sudden, LiveBidding is impossible. What would you do if it happened to you? For Jürg Richter, Managing Director of Sincona AG, this nightmare has become reality. He decided to abandon the auction sale.