Krause Publications Announces 2012 Coin of the Year Winners
Krause Publications has announced the winners of its 2012 Coin of the Year Awards. Voting for the People’s Choice Award is still open. The 2012 COTY Awards will be given February 4, 2012, at the World Money Fair in Berlin, Germany...
Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple Treasure to be Assessed
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) is the body which runs the affairs of the Indian temples. Now it is trying to assess the value of the famous treasure found half a year ago in the troves of Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple in the province of Kerala...
Public Asked To Comment On The MOU With Cyprus
The US State Department is imposing new import restrictions of Greek antiquities. Peter K. Tompa, Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG) Board Member and Chairman of the Legislative Affairs Committee has published a call to comment on the hearing opened by the State Department’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC)...
‘Wailing Wall’ built after Herod
Archaeological excavations permit a new view on one of the most contentious religious places of the whole world, the Jerusalem Temple Mount. Until now it was believed to be erected by King Herod. Coins point to a later completion...
US coins to alter material: steel instead of copper, zinc and nickel
Two bills are presented to US Congress proposing alternative coinage materials because production costs of zinc, copper and nickel based coins exceed the coins’ face value. Steel seems to be the new choice...
Standard Catalog of World Coins 1601-1700 Now Available
The Standard Catalog of World Coins 1601-1700 is now available from Krause Publications. Edited by George Cuhaj and Tom Michael, this fifth edition presents some of the fastest-rising retail values for world coins...
Important coin collection offered at Sotheby’s by Hispanic Society of America
The Hispanic Society of America will offer its collection of rare coins as a single lot at Sotheby’s. The collection consists of almost 38,000 coins and is expected to raise between $25 million and $35 million...
Foreign Currency Collection Stolen
A large collection valued at over $200,000 has been stolen in Larnaca, Cyprus. Approximately 500 notes were taken. Most were rare, but low grade Latin American notes, from 1890-1970. Some rare high value notes from Brazil, before 1926 and many more...
Numismatic discovery: 1766 Rouble of Catherine II linked to official portrait
At The New York Sale XXVII-XXIX in January 2012 Baldwin’s is going to offer a 1766 Rouble of Catherine II. Recently it has been discovered that the portrait of the Tsarina pictured on the coin is to be linked to a monumental portrait. The coin is estimated to sell for around $ 1,000,000...
Coin kicks off UN International Year of Cooperatives
The Australian launch of the UN International Year of Co-operatives kicked off on November 22, 2011 at Parliament House with the release of a $1 collectible coin produced by the Royal Australian Mint recognizing this auspicious year...