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From the shekel to the dollar, specialists of the British Museum have written a book that deals with ten coins that changed the world. Björn Schöpe has taken a closer look at the book.

In 1997, the British government established the Portable Antiquities Scheme. It was the beginning of an impressive success story. Now, the project is threatened by budget cuts. The head of the co-ordinating department, Roger Bland, has now resigned.

In 2012, a multidisciplinary conference on the interpretation of Greek and Roman coin imagery was conducted in Tübingen. The proceedings have now been released. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at them.

It is a legend, this Coin of the Year Award, the annual prize awarded by Krause Publications. Pretty much all other coin prizes are modelled on the COTY. Now, an entire book is devoted to it. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at it.

Since the draft for the new Law on the Protection of Cultural Property has been presented to a handful of specialists, there is an ongoing debate about it. Some lenders have already begun to withdraw their works of art from museums. Ursula Kampmann gives a summary of the new regulations.

On July 2, 2015, Lutz Ilisch celebrated his 65th birthday. It was him who has made Tübingen an internationally renowned center for Islamic numismatics.

In 2013, the project “Money and the Church in Northern Europe 1000-1200: Practice, Morality and Thought” was initiated. Its coordinators are Svein Gullbekk, Oslo, und Giles Gasper, Durham. From November 23 to 25, 2011, they hosted a conference whose proceedings have now been released. Ursula Kampmann has taken a look at it.

On June 6, the new permanent exhibition of the Dresden Coin Cabinet opened its doors. Shortly before then, the G7 Finance Ministers had visited the not yet fully completed presentation. We talked to Dr Rainer Grund, Director of the Dresden Coin Cabinet, about what happened backstage.

In terms of numismatics, Copenhagen has much more to offer than ‘just’ the Coin Cabinet. Several coin collections are on permanent display, as in the Thorvaldsen Museum and the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Not to forget the hoard finds in the National Museum of Denmark!

Manfred Mehl has written a new corpus. It contains everything there is to know about coins and medals from Merseburg. With your order you can acquire a book package at a special discount. Ursula Kampmann reports.