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Konstantin Dochev has written a comprehensive study on the coins of the Byzantine ruling family, the House of Palaiologos, which were minted between 1259 and 1396 and circulated in the Bulgarian kingdom. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at the study.

Two detectorists in England found a treasure of Roman gold coins – at least that’s what they thought. In reality, they found remnants of a TV shoot, ironically the shoot of a popular comedy series about detectorists...

2017 marks the 65th birthday of Dimitar Draganov. On this occasion a Festschrift was published. Ursula Kampmann was responsible for the biography of Dimitar. In order to inform our readers about the difficult situation our colleagues behind the Iron Curtain had to face, we republish this biography.

Sam Moorhead is National Finds Adviser for Iron Age and Roman coins for the Portable Antiquities Scheme at the British Museum, London. He is also site numismatist on the excavation at Butrint, Albania, where he is responsible for ancient coins.

The Seaton Down Hoard has arrived at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter. With 22,888 Roman coins, it is by far the largest coin hoard found in Devon and the third largest ever found in Britain.

41 Roman solidi have been discovered in an orchard in the Gelderland province. They may have served to pay a local ruler to assist in the fight against Germanic tribes. This is a promising start for a newly established project that aims at recording private archaeological finds.

“Operation Pandora” was a major investigation program lasting over two months in 18 countries. It had very small results for such a massive operation and did provide no evidence of the antiquities trade’s association with terrorist activity. Kate Fitz Gibbon reports.

Stack’s Bowers Galleries concluded the 2016 auction season at Baltimore Convention Center. United States Coins Surpass $6.5 Million in Stack’s Bowers Galleries’ Official Auction of the November 2016 Whitman Baltimore Expo.

Nathan T. Elkins is archaeologist, numismatist and an active participant in the debate about building a bridge between ancient coin collecting and good ethical practice. He has developed his code of ethics for collectors.

An employee of the Royal Canadian Mint stands accused of stealing gold coins and gold pucks. He probably smuggled the blanks using the oldest trick in the book – smuggling them inside his own body.