Dutch coin is Coin of the Year 2013
After the announcement of the winners in the various categories of the Coin of the Year Award the jury has announced as well the overall coin of the year: a Dutch coin featuring a QR barcode.
In England number of treasure findings increasing
The Department of Culture Media and Sport has published the number of treasures found in 2011 in the UK, and the objects recorded through the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Both numbers have risen compared to the previous year.
A Coin-Collecting American Boy in 1960s Rome
Robert W. Wallace, one of our steady readers and Professor of Classics at Northwestern University (USA) shares with us his memories of how he collected coins during his Rome stay in the 1960s. And about how differently coin collecting was considered at that epoch.
Latvian Collector Coin “Riga Technical University”
The Bank of Latvia issued a new 1 lats silver collector coin. Dedicated to the Riga Technical University on occasion of its 150th birthday it is not only a coin but a practically employable tool, which enables the measurements of size, direction and source of origin.
Festschrift for Ilya Prokopov
A new volume of essays has just been published in honour of Dr Ilya S. Prokopov, one of the leading Bulgarian numismatists and a world expert on modern counterfeits of ancient coins.
New divisional heads at collectable auction house Spink
The collectables auction house Spink & Son Ltd announces the appointments of two new divisional heads, the Numismatic division and the Philatelic department. In the last decade Spink has rapidly expanded from its original London base.
Hungary’s first oval coin dedicated to Nobel Prize Winner
Hungary’s first oval coin is the first coin in a new series of Hungarian Nobel Prize Winners. The National Bank of Hungary commemorates Albert Szent-Györgyi, the Discoverer of Vitamin C, with this issue.
Austrian Mint Issuing Programme 2013
The Austrian Mint has announced its issuing programme 2013. Collectors will find the traditional New Year’s coin and new editions of popular series like the ‘Federal Provinces’ and ‘Klimt and his women.’ There will be a new series, too: ‘Prehistoric Life.’
Austria dances the waltz in silver
On December 12, 2012 the Austrian Mint issued a 5 euro silver coin celebrating one of the best-known dances of all time, the Waltz. For the first time ever a portion will be available in an English-only package.
Ancient Greek playwrite Aeschylus on silver coin
The Bank of Greece has issued a new 10 Euro collector’s coin in silver which highlights Aeschylus, an author of enduring reputation and innovation in a genre most prevalent in ancient Hellenic culture – that of the theatre in the form of tragedy.