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If, during your next stay in Canada, you come across a 5 dollar note displaying a strangely familiar looking face, you better keep it: modified to become a likeness of Star Trek character Mr Spock, these bills have become a cult.

Please do not shoot – in the U.S. State of Utah, this admonition falls on deaf ears of more and more trigger-happy residents which practice their skills on a very special target: ancient rock art.

Neil MacGregor, outgoing Director of the British Museum, will preside over the founding committee of the Humboldt-Forum. His current position will be taken by Hartwig Fischer, General Director of the Dresden State Art Collections since 2012.

For years, the art world keeps looking east. Chinese art obtains record prices and more than one auction house achieves its largest turnover in China. Analyzing the results from 2014, however, a report now concludes that the upward trend has come to an end.

On September 14, 2015, the Commissioner of the Federal Government for Culture and Media presented the third draft of the amendment of the Law on the Protection of Cultural Heritage. We will introduce you to the most important modifications in comparison to draft number two.

In the previous days, we have been sent two books on Byzantine numismatics at once. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at the new work written by Cécile Morrisson and the proceedings of a colloquium that was held at Geneva and focused on “Aniconism in the religious art of Byzantium”.

Dimitar Draganov has submitted a detailed die study for the coins minted by the Skythian kings that will become the new standard reference for this coinage. Ursula Kampmann has taken a closer look at it.

700 attending numismatists, 420 presentations, 50 posters, four Round Tables, and countless stimulating lectures of numismatists from all over the world. Every International Numismatic Congress marks a new superlative! Taormina was no exception.

The Islamic State has released its own currency which is intended to liberate Muslims from the tyranny of the Western world. The question is this: Will this currency prevail? If we apply Gresham’s Law, the answer is clear: no.

In August 2015, Dario Franceschini, Italian Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, announced plans to invest nearly 80 million euros in twelve important cultural projects. One such project aims at rebuilding the Colosseum floor, to provide a stage for gladiatorial fights to entertain tourists.