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The story of a huge treasure on Cocos Island, located not far from Costa Rica, was already known to Robert Louis Stevenson to whom it served as an inspiration to write his best-seller ‘Treasure Island’. Now, the legendary Treasure of Lima is said to have been discovered at last.

A collection of anecdotes revolving around coins, collectors and the past of US American numismatics is the content of the rewarding book by author Q. David Bowers. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at it.

Three things are the basis of numismatics: material, material, material. The Sylloge volumes on Sasanian numismatics make this material accessible to researchers. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at one of the volumes.

There is this wonderful coinage with the unpronounceable name: the starters with Demeter’s head on the obverse and fighting Ajax on the reverse. A monograph has now been published that enlightens us about the Lokrians of Opous. Ursula Kampmann has taken a closer look at it.

Take a closer look at the banknotes in your wallet – you might find a genuine work of art. A Greek artist modifies euro notes and then returns them into circulation. With this project, all of Europe shall become aware of his money critique.

On 24 February 2015, Richard B. Witschonke, distinguished expert on the Roman Republican coinage, died.

Finding a historic coin during a snowball fight is something one can only dream of. This dream came true for an English pupil. The whole school now wonders if there’s an entire hoard buried in the grounds…

Germany repatriates its gold. As a matter of fact, it is somewhat less spectacular than what some newspaper articles try to make you believe. It is a symbolic act to reassure all sceptics who doubt that Germany’s gold is still there.

Franz Füeg certainly is no stranger to experts in Byzantine numismatics. He has published a new Corpus. It deals with the nomismata from 976 to 1067. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at it.

It is an institution, perhaps comparable with the Jaeger in Germany: Spink’s Standard Catalogue on the English coinage. Ursula Kampmann writes the anniversary review.