Las Vegas Show Hosts Seminars on various topics
The Las Vegas Numismatic Society Fall coin show is set for September 12-14 in Las Vegas. Visitors will have the opportunity to participate at seminars on silver dollars, panda coins and many others offered by leading experts.
Degussa acquires precious metals refinery in Pforzheim, Germany
Degussa Group announces the acquisition of the Schellhorn & Roth GmbH & Co. KG precious metals refinery in Pforzheim, Germany. With the acquisition of this well established business, Degussa expands its activities beyond just the trading of precious metals products.
Italy issues 2014 Coin Set
The Italian Mint has issued its annual Brilliant Uncirculated set, which includes BU examples of all eight circulating coins and one of the circulating commemorative 2-euro coins for 2014, in honor of Galileo Galilei.
New “Spectacular Landscapes” series opens with Grand Canyon
The Grand Canyon is one of the most impressive natural wonders on our planet and a worthy subject to mark the start of a new coin series: “Spectacular Landscapes”. By choosing a powerful combination of silver, marble and colours, Coin Invest Trust has truly imbued this spectacular landscape with life.
Karl May’s Heirs Standing on the Dock
Scalps illustrate quite drastically what victorious Indians did to their enemies. Is it impious to still display these trophies when descendants want to bury the remains of their ancestors? To that question the Karl May Museum recently had to find an answer.
Art of Devastation: A Web-based Catalogue of First World War Medallic Art
American Numismatic Society launches “Art of Devastation”: an important new web-based research catalogue of the thousands of art medals, commemorative medals and tokens produced in response to this major conflict.
All volumes of the German JNG are now available for free on the internet
The Bavarian Numismatic Society had launched its journal 'Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte' in 1949. Thanks to Gorny & Mosch, all volumes of the JNG published since then are now available for free on the internet.
PNG: Coin and paper money show in New York City in October 2014
The Professional Numismatists Guild will conduct a coin and paper money show in the Times Squares area of New York City, October 9-11, 2014. More than 100 dealers are expected to have tables at the show.
Australia commemorates 50 years of research institute on Indigenous peoples
On June 2014, the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Tony Abbott MP, launched the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies commemorative 50 cent circulating coin at Parliament House in Canberra.
Final coin in popular Finnish Northern Nature series released
The popular and much admired Northern Nature coin series was concluded with the release of Waters on 2 July. Waters, the sixth and final commemorative coin in the series, tells a story about the diversity of northern bodies of water and their inhabitants.