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SINCONA offers a broad variety of gold coins: a special collection of US rarities, investors’ favorites as well as Swiss and World gold coins and medals. Not to forget all the other interesting numismatic objects.

Swiss Electronic Academic Library Service (SEALS) has digitalised numerous academic journals making them available online for free. You can find in particular numismatic journals like Schweizer Numismatische Rundschau.

A group of numismatists met with representatives of the Federal Department of Culture and members of the cantonal archaeology in order to analyse the position of the coin trade and coin collecting after 5 years of Cultural Goods Transfer Law. Following points were discussed...

Das Salzburg Museum sucht für die Digitalisierung der Münz- und Medaillensammlung im Rahmen des Beitritts zu ikmk.net Praktikant*innen.

In Part 4 of its extraordinary British Collection, SINCONA will be presenting several extremely rare patterns, some of which are the best-preserved specimens available on the market. In this article, we tell their story.

Swissmint continues the “Energy of the Future” series with the commemorative coin “Solar Energy”. As it is characteristic for this series, the coin has fluorescent elements that glow in the dark.

Measuring with the same yardstick: for a long time, this was the exception. Until the end of the 19th century, a dizzying array of different units was used in Switzerland for weighing and measuring. Even the time of day varied from one place to the next.

Dr. August Voirol was a Swiss gynecologist, President of the Circulus Numismaticus Basiliensis and vice-president of the Swiss Numismatic Society. He wrote lenghty commentaries on most items of his collection of ancient coins.

In 2022, Swissmint is commemorating the last minting of the 10-franc gold Vreneli in 1922 with a gold coin. In the Swissmint online shop the coin was sold out only hours after the official issue. What makes this issue so special?

Fredy Bühler-Zimmermann was a passionate collector of coins, medals and securities of the Swiss canton of Glarus. He wrote several numismatic books and was President of the Historical Society of the Canton of Glarus (HVG) for 10 years.