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Feb 25, 2021, 09:30 AM
Market Analysis: Antinous portrait in high relief
A bronze drachm, once owned by Cornelius Vermeule, respected curator of fine arts at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston was among the highlighted auction lots at a recent Classic Numismatic Group sale. -
Feb 24, 2021, 10:00 AM
Market Analysis: Art of the ancient world
Classic Numismatic Group's Triton XXIV sale featured some offerings that drew attention to the commitment to art in ancient coins, like a silver didrachm minted in Sicily in the 400s B.C. -
Feb 23, 2021, 09:00 AM
Margolis research library offered in Kolbe & Fanning sale
Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers offers researcher Richard E. Margolis' library at its March 6 mail-bid and live online auction, featuring works on French Revolution and Napoleonic era numismatics. -
Feb 22, 2021, 09:50 AM
Pobjoy Mint honors nursing profession on new 50-penny coins
Minted for the government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, the Pobjoy Mint's 50-penny coin honoring the nursing profession has silver and copper-nickel versions. -
Feb 19, 2021, 15:00 PM
Royal Mint honors cartoon icons Mr. Men, Little Miss
The characters of Happyland now have their own official currency as the Royal Mint has begun a multi-coin series with designs marking the 50th anniversary of the Mr. Men Little Miss cartoon characters. -
Feb 18, 2021, 10:10 AM
Ancient Greek gold coin and imitation offered in CNG auction
Two ancient Greek coins in the Jan. 27 CNG auction, in separate lots, featured an interesting twist, one a genuine gold distater and the other an ancient copy of a stater from the same Mint. -
Feb 18, 2021, 10:00 AM
Italian circulating commemorative thanks health workers
More nations continue to thank their healthcare workers by designing coins to recognize them, with Italy expressing its gratitude on a just released 2021 circulating commemorative €2 coin. -
Feb 18, 2021, 09:30 AM
Money Talks lecture focuses on early Egyptian gold
In her Feb. 27 presentation in the American Numismatic Society series Money Talks, Dr. Irene Soto Martin discusses fourth-century solidi found in Egypt and their importance to a study of the period's economy. -
Feb 15, 2021, 15:45 PM
Stingray offered in Perth’s Deadly & Dangerous coin series
The Perth Mint adds the stingray to the Deadly & Dangerous series in 2021, with a limited mintage $100 gold coin and a silver dollar, each with an underwater scene colorized with metallic paint. -
Feb 14, 2021, 10:00 AM
Canada’s Specimen set includes dollar for Blanding’s turtle
The RCM offers an annual coin set in a Specimen Finish and the 2021 theme continues the endangered species awareness program with a Blanding's turtle as the subject of the Specimen dollar. -
Feb 13, 2021, 10:00 AM
World War I era bronze medal issued for Dutch ship
A March Amsterdam sale offers a 1917 Dutch bronze medal created in response to German torpedo boats attacking the neutral nation's cargo ship SS Amstelstroom, killing some crewmembers. -
Feb 3, 2021, 08:00 AM
Barbados releases glow-in-the-dark circulating commemorative
While commemorative glow-in-the-dark coins aren't new, Barbados 2020 $1 coins minted by the RCM go a step further, with a million of them issued for general circulation and collecting. -
Feb 2, 2021, 11:00 AM
A medal for ship namesake Admiral Gardner in London auction
Many know of the ship "Admiral Gardner," but the man by that name also ran a political campaign in the late 1700s, and for his cause a penny-sized token was issued. An example is offered Feb. 17 by Baldwin's. -
Jan 30, 2021, 10:00 AM
Gold 50-shilling coin of Cromwell soars in London auction
A coin of Oliver Cromwell established a world record in Dix Noonan Webb's Jan. 21 auction, as the gold 50-shilling piece from Marvin Lessen's collections realized £471,200, more than three times its high estimate. -
Jan 26, 2021, 11:26 AM
Pobjoy Mint titanium coin shows colorful flamingo
The brightly colored, graceful flamingo is reproduced in pink and light green titanium by the Pobjoy Mint on a 2021 $5 coin for Fiji; an Uncirculated copper-nickel dollar version is also offered. -
Jan 21, 2021, 12:00 PM
Sierra Leone shows majestic lion on Proof 2020 half-gram gold coin
A Sierra Leon 2020 Proof gold $4 coin offered by the Pobjoy Mint in 2021 complements the nation's 2020 Big Cat silver $4 coin series, reusing the lion design from that silver series. -
Jan 20, 2021, 10:50 AM
Postponed FIDEM event keeps 2020 name, with December 2021 date
The Fédération Internationale de la Médaille d’Art congress and exhibition planned for Tokyo, postponed from its original October 2020 date, is reset for December 2021. -
Jan 18, 2021, 11:15 AM
A kingdom under siege spurs money of necessity during English Civil War
Coins of the English Civil War are historic and collectible, with one interesting example an AU-58 1645 silver shilling of Carlisle, England, in the Feb. 2 and 3 Ira & Larry Goldberg Pre-Long Beach auction. -
Jan 18, 2021, 09:15 AM
Australia at Night series continues with 2021 coins for wombat
2021 gold $100 and silver $1 coins in the Australia at Night series for Niue use selective plating and finishing techniques to feature the wombat, a native marsupial that is critically endangered. -
Jan 15, 2021, 10:55 AM
Canada’s ‘Bluenose’ vessel featured on commemoratives for ship centennial
The Royal Canadian Mint features the swift, graceful schooner 'Bluenose' on several 2021 coins in celebration of the 1921 launch of what soon became one of Canada’s favorite national symbols.
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