Archive: People and Markets

The Capitoline Museum is home of some of the most important cultural goods of Italy. Image: Suicasmo via Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0.

Legal Head of Italian Culture Ministry: “Fiendishly Extensive” Proofs Bar Imports

A significant statement on the importation of numismatic goods was issued in June 2023 by the legal department of the Italian Ministry of Culture. Read an analysis by Valentina Tarquini for Cultural Property News here.

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Lars Emil Bruun (1852–1923): From the Local Inn to an International Enterprise

The auction of the exceptional Bruun collection, 100 years after the collector’s death, has attracted a great deal of attention. But who was Bruun as a person? What inspired him? On behalf of Stack’s, Ursula Kampmann went in search of Bruun’s personality and compiled a short biography.

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Group photograph of all presenters. Image: ICOMON.

Report of the ICOMON 29th Annual Conference in Kuala Lumpur

The 2023 ICOMON conference was held in Malaysia. Read here about the program, the topics presented and discussed, and where you can watch the presentations online.

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RPC Volumes V.2 and V.3 Now Available Online

The Roman Provincial Coinage project now published RPC volume V.2 and V.3 online. They cover all Roman provincial coinage issues from Pertinax to the death of Macrinus (AD 193-218) in all the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. This includes 11,000 type descriptions and over 45,000 coins from 317 cities!

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Archive: Coins, Medals and more

L. E. Bruun: A Collector in His Time

On the occasion of the upcoming auction of the second part of the Bruun Collection, Ursula Kampmann set out again to explore the story of the person behind this collection on behalf of Stack's. This time, she took a close look at Bruun's career as a collector. Read on to learn about the coin trade and the world of collecting before the Second World War.

Oh Dear, I Think I’m Becoming a God! Numismatic Testaments to the Consecration of Roman Emperors

On 31 October 2024, Künker will auction off part 9 of the Dr. W.R. Collection. It presents Roman coins from the period between the civil war of 68/9 and the end of the Severan dynasty. The diverse material illustrates the numismatic traces of the consecration of Roman emperors.
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