A new museum for Mary Rose
Once she was a flagship of England’s war marine, today Mary Rose tells us of the Tudor era. Many artifacts and an impressive hull will be exposed in a new museum at Historical dockyards in Portsmouth in 2012...
Austrian Mint issues 2012 Calendar Medal dedicated to Mercury
Since the 1930’s the Austrian Mint issues each year a calendar medal. The 2012 medal is dedicated to Mercury. Due to the high silver price the medal will not only be available in silver but for the first time in bronze, too...
New Gateway to Italian Numismatic
The Italian website Portale Numismatico dello Stato is a public project gathering numismatic material, catalogues, legal texts, essays and a whole journal making all that stuff available to everybody. In addition it offers virtual museum tours and much more...
A collector coin to honour the skills of Fabergé’s Finnish goldsmith
In spring 2012, the Mint of Finland and the Ministry of Finance are planning to issue a collector coin commemorating the skills of Finnish master goldsmiths. The coin would feature two of the famous imperial Easter eggs of Fabergé’s linked to the name of the Finnish smith Henrik Wigström...
India prevents coins from being melted to razor blades
Because small Indian rupees were made of stainless steel people melted them down producing razor blades out of them which were worth much more than the original coin’s denomination. Now India has introduced new coins made of alloys...
Translatio nummorum – Roman Emperors in the Renaissance
From November 16 to 18, 2011 experts from all over the world gathered in Berlin to discuss how their Renaissance colleagues started to interpret the wealth of coins they had at hand...
Letters to the editor
Shall collectors donate their collections to museums? Within the last issue we heard some arguments against it. Here are three more letters in favor of leaving coins to public coin cabinets...
Thessaloniki fights for its cultural future
It could be the most important archaeological finding of whole northern Greece: an ancient temple of Aphrodite in Thessaloniki. Though it was partly excavated in 2000, neither the excavations go on nor concrete actions are taken to preserve the rests for future generations...
Computer-aided coin archiving and processing
The use of computer-aided processing methods bears great potential for the numismatic world and opens up new possibilities. During a conference at Southampton in 2012 there will be a Special Session on computer-aided coin archiving and processing. Interested authors are encouraged to submit abstracts of papers...
A New Christmas Coin From Andorra
In occasion of Christmas the Principality of Andorra issues a new coin. The 5 diner silver coin is released in October and has been conceived by the Coin Invest Trust. The incorporation of a Swarowski© element as Star of Bethlehem and the partially coloured reverse attract attention...