Benjamin D.R. Hellings, The Naseby Cup: Coins and Medals of the English Civil War. Yale University Press, 2024, 144 pp. Paperback, 209.6 x 247.7 mm, with 185 color illus. ISBN 9780300275865. Price: $25.00.

The Naseby Cup – Coins and Medals of the English Civil War

The Naseby Cup is a Victorian vessel of extraordinary numismatic importance, as many incredibly rare coins from the English Civil war are integrated into it. A publication on the cup and its coins will soon be available.

Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio

Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio ⸱ April 2024 Hong Kong Auction ⸱ 19-22 April 2024 ⸱ Hong Kong

The recently completed Stack’s Hong Kong World Paper Money Sale shattered the firm’s May 2022 Hong Kong record for highest grossing world banknote sale.

Cayón Subastas

Cayón Subastas ⸱ Auction 418 ⸱ 14 May 2024 ⸱ Online

Auction 418 by Cayon is entirely dedicated to gold. Among the 216 lots are Roman aurei and Spanish gold coins from the Visigoths to the present day.

Classical Numismatic Group

Classical Numismatic Group ⸱ CNG Feature Auction 126 ⸱ 28-29 May 2024 ⸱ Online

CNG presents their Feature Auction 126. This sale offers 1286 lots from ancient times to British coinage with a presale estimate of just over $2.5 million.

Background: Kremnica. Photo: Lukkon / CC BY-SA 4.0.

The First Years of Czechoslovak Coinage

SINCONA will auction off an impressive collection of Czechoslovak patterns. The offer includes a pattern for the Wenceslas Ducat of which only two specimens exist. Moreover, the sale features the very specimen of the Wenceslas Ducat that President Mazaryk gave to the family of the murdered Finance Minister Rašín.

Professor Rory Naismith holding a Byzantine silver coin in the Fitzwilliam Museum. Photo: Adam Page.

Where Did Silver Come from in Early Medieval Europe?

In the mid-7th century, a veritable silver coin boom set off in the North Sea Region. So far, the question of where the silver for the coins came from was up for speculation. A new study provides concrete results.