Financial History Researcher to Speak at National Coin and Currency Convention
Financial history researcher Lawrence Schuffman will be the keynote speaker during the educational programs to be held in conjunction with the Professional Currency Dealers Association’s November 8-11 National Coin and Currency Convention.
Numismatic Northern Spain – Part 5
The English are said to have captured 1,500,000 pounds sterling during their attack of Vigo. That’s a lot of silver! More than enough to make us want to take a peek at the shallow waters of the cove for ourselves in the hopes that something had been left over ...
Sorrowful prince Cem issued coins
Lately we told you about prince Cem and his sorrowful life. Actually, for a short time he issued coins too. However, only few of them are preserved. What a luck that an expert on Islamic numismatics like Lutz Ilisch has turned out to be such a diligent reader of CoinsWeekly.
Stack’s Bowers Galleries re-open New York retail space
Stack’s Bowers Galleries re-opens the legendary retail outlet in New York City on August 23, 2012. On that occasion a new GOLD to go™ ATM machine will be presented and two silver Bison coins officially launched.
Spanish Mint releases fourth set of ‘Numismatic Treasures’ series
The Real Casa de la Moneda has released the fourth set of collector coins in the ‘Numismatic Treasures’ series which reproduces historical coins. This set features a gold Maravedi, an Almohad dinar and an Alphones VIII Dinero.
Smithonian to renovate its numismatic gallery
The construction of the Smithonian’s new numismatic gallery is expected to cost $1.5 million. Although coin dealers and other companies are contributing $300,000 are still lacking. The museum owns over 1 million artifacts and aims at displaying many more than today from 2015 on.
Numismatic Northern Spain – Part 4
Santiago! Saint James de Compostela! The last few years have seen an incredible renaissance in people making pilgrimages to him. Despite this surge in popularity, we were quite happy to be making our way towards him by car and not by foot, since this meant we could easily make a quick detour to A Coruña to see the last remaining Roman lighthouse.
New x-ray imaging technology assists with coin hoards
In collaboration with the British Museum researchers from the University of Southampton are applying an x-ray imaging technology in order to analyse coin hoards. The metal blocks are x-ray scanned, then a computer assembles the images rendering thus a 3D picture of the single coins.
Mongolia issues coin on Long-eared hedgehog
As part of the Wildlife Protection series Mongolia dedicates a new coin to one of its native animals, the long-eared hedgehog. The Coin Invest Trust has chosen a design reminiscent of the series’ first coin, the twice award-winning ‘Gulo gulo’ of 2007.
Book on Anglo-Saxon counterfeits
The replicas and forgeries of Anglo-Saxon coins have produced a corpus of material almost as extensive as the originals. In this groundbreaking new study Tony Abramson brings together a vast catalogue of Anglo-Saxon counterfeits and copies.