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DAMIN is the name of a project initiated by Georges Depeyrot about four years ago. It examines the depreciation of silver in the second half of the 19th century and its international repercussions. Most importantly, DAMIN has a truly global focus.

Richard Margolis, expert on modern medals, has put down his profound knowledge about the terra cotta portraits of Benjamin Franklin created by Jean-Baptiste Nini in a bibliophilic book. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at it.

On May 28 and 29, 2015, the 5th Round Table of the DAMIN Project took place in Copenhagen. It focused on mints, technology, and coin production. 16 speakers from 13 nations from three continents participated.

SNG Cop. – these six letters tell the insider everything. The museum world of Copenhagen is an El Dorado for every coin aficionado. First of all, Ursula Kampmann reports on the Coin Cabinet of the National Museum of Denmark.

A coinage more lavishly illustrated and more colorful than the one of Asia Minor in Roman Imperial times is hard to imagine. Responsible was a wealthy elite which expressed its perceptions on coins. Robert Bennett has dealt with this topic, and Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at his book.

With a GDP growth of 5.9% in 2014, India is one of the world’s fastest expanding economies. Not good enough, thinks the government. It hopes for the Hindu temple gold to be melted down to curb annual gold imports.

Matteo Campagnolo and Klaus Weber have written a comprehensive and bibliophilic catalogue of Late Roman and Byzantine weights made of copper alloys. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at it.

In the first half of 2016, the Federal Government will issue a 5 euro commemorative coin produced with an entirely new technology. After extensive research, a team of coin technicians and material scientists have developed a new polymer that can be coined.

In 2013, the company Deep Ocean Search recovered tons of silver coins at a depth of about 5100 meters, off the Namibian coast, thus beating a record. The money had been intended to fund Great Britain’s effort in WWII. The numismatists, however, have lost the treasure a second time.

Do we actually have to visit museums when everything will be available on the internet very soon? As part of its project called Google Cultural Institute, Google now presents numerous digital exhibitions that have one or two advantages indeed.