Riga Cathedral – “a place to discover the unknown”
The Republic of Latvia issues a collector silver coin commemorating the 800th anniversary of the Riga Cathedral on 25th July 2011. The 1-lats-coin shows the cathedral and an angel. The building is the home of the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church and is seen as a centre for Latvian Christs...
UFWC coin becomes first currency in space
Paolo Nespoli, an Italian astronaut has taken a coin of the United Future World Currency’s (UFWC) initiative to the International Space Station (ISS). UFWC and ISS are both searching “to link all countries and people of the world with the motto “Unity in diversity”.”...
9/11 Memorial Medal – Over 50,000 Sold in First Week
The official proof silver medal of the US Mint commemorating the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, arouse extreme interest with US buyers...
“The Western Wall” – Bank of Israel issues a new Gold Bullion Coin
The Bank of Israel issues its 2nd Gold Bullion Coin in the “Jerusalem of Gold” Series: “The Western Wall”. The issue is limited to 3,600 pieces and the price is not permanent but fluctuates in accordance with the daily international price of gold...
1st Latin American High Security Printing Conference in Rio de Janeiro
Reconnaissance International will be holding the 1st Latin American High Security Printing Conference in Rio de Janeiro from June 12-14, 2012. It addresses topics for specifiers and producers, issuers and distributors of government documents in the region...
Numismatic diary of a journey throughout Greece – Part 6
What is there to be found in Pherai, the city where once upon a time such beautiful coins were produced, like the ones that reached record prices in Zurich only recently? Does reality match up with the coins’ testimony? But first a trip to Mount Olympus.
Verdict in 1933 Double Eagles trial
On July 20, 2011 – after ten days of trial and five hours of deliberation – a jury decided that the ten 1933 Double Eagles, which had been handed to the Secret Service by the descendants of a jeweler from Philadelphia, still belong to the United States of America, although the theft has been committed more than 70 years ago...
Roman criminals detected by award winning amateur archaeologist
The Searcher acknowledged it to be the ‘most significant hoard’ in the Nations’ Greatest Find competition: a couple of blank bronze coins and an anvil. According to experts these objects were forgers’ equipment from around 300 AD...
Numismatic diary of a journey throughout Greece – Part 5
The fifth stage of our journey is dedicated to Dion, perhaps the most beautiful excavation in Northern Greece. And Dion was important in antiquity: Alexander sacrificed to Zeus in Dion, before he set out to conquer the world...
The Indian version of the cultural property debate
By governmental order the vaults of a temple in Southern India have been opened. This revealed gold coins, jewels and golden statues, which are valued by the government at approximately 22 billion (sic!) dollars...