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The Certified Collectibles Group opened its London office in the fashionable Bloomsbury area on September 10, 2018. It is located within the Spink building. The London office will be CCG’s fifth global location.

Auction 108 of Classical Numismatic Group ends on 16 May 2018. This internet and mail bid sale offers 1,243 lots with a presale estimate of $2.34 million featuring many fine and rare specimens from collections as the Arthur Houghton or the Jonathan K. Kern Collection.

Numismatic Guaranty Corporation graded more than 40,000,000 coins. It is the first third-party coin grading service who ever reached this threshold.

When the price for silver is changing too fast, those countries are coming under pressure, that issue silver commemorative circulation coins for face value. This article takes a look at market mechanisms and solution approaches.

A coin hoard in the Bulgarian city of Mezdra offers new insights into local history. Archaeologists expect a hitherto unknown settlement at the site of around 1,000 silver coins of imperial times – most of which are already gone.

For the first time ever, NGC International will hold an on-site grading event in its Munich branch. The event which will take place from February 27 to March 3, 2018 is a first for the world’s largest third-party coin grading service.

From Europe to Asia, from AD 600-1600 – that is the range the “Global Medieval Sourcebook” spans. Stanford University’s free online tool offers transcriptions as well as new English translations of written sources in a variety of genres.

Frankfurt is the city of banks and commerce. But Frankfurt is also a city of numismatics. Probably no one knows this better than Frank Berger. He shows us what numismatists and coin collectors should know and which places they should visit.

An international debate has arisen over the fate of Jewish cultural heritage. Iraq is demanding that the U.S. returns an archive confiscated by Iraqi officials 30 years ago – a story of dealing with history.

It was to be a highlight at Heritage’s upcoming New York Auction in January 2018: Theodor Mommsen’s Nobel Prize medal for Literature. Then it turned out: the original is being kept in an archive. A counterfeit? Fraud? The issue is not that simple.