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On September 15, 2015, the German Ministry for Culture and Media has finally published the long awaited ministerial draft of the amendment of the Law on the Protection of Cultural Property. It is now available on the internet.

100,000 remimbi was the sum a Jiangsu-based farmer had saved. As has been customary for millennia, he had buried the money in the ground. It took only four years for his fortune to turn into mush.

On August 23, 2015, Harold B. Mattingly has died at the age of 92. The distinguished historian, numismatist and epigraphist, looks back on a long and fulfilled life.

The Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum may rejoice. G. H. Stork made the museum a present of his large collection of coins and medals focusing on geo sciences. Also a catalog was published which Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at.

Naturally, stolen items have to be returned. But what happens to seized objects if they aren’t claimed by any state? And why is it that in Italy even the most notorious tomb raiders go unpunished? The Becchina case presents us with unanswered questions.

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has announced the official demonetization of the Zimbabwe dollar. For many years, foreign money replaced the multiple-digit local currency.

The entire world of coin collectors and dealers has helped to make the petition “For the preservation of private collecting” a success. Even though the quorum currently amounts to slightly more than 10%, the petition already achieved great successes: the voting in the Council of Ministers has been postponed.

Two clay pots containing more than 6,000 silver coins from the 16th and the 17th century have been found by a forester in a forest in western Poland. It is a sensational find that raises many questions.

Allegedly, valuable mosaics dating to Roman Times have been seriously damaged. The deed wasn’t committed by rioters but by restorers. The incident happened in Turkish Antakya, ancient Antioch, which houses one of the world’s largest collections of ancient mosaics.

The papers contributed to the Festschrift of Wolfgang Hahn by his numismatic friends are equally as wide-ranging as his own research. Ursula Kampmann has taken a closer look at the Festschrift.