Archive: People and Markets
New Security Standards for the World Money Fair
The personalization of tickets has become standard at many events. Starting in 2025, visitors to the World Money Fair will be required to provide their personal data when purchasing tickets.
The Winners of the COTY Award 2024
At the World’s Fair of Money, the winners of the prestigious Coin of the Year (COTY) Awards were honored. Find out here which coins won the category awards and which country took home the award for Coin of the Year.
Archive: Coins, Medals and more

The Olympic Games That Are No Longer Recognized
In 1906, the IOC and the country of Greece invited athletes from all over the world to the Olympic Games in Athens. The Games had a lasting impact on the ceremonies surrounding the sporting showdown, even though the IOC no longer recognizes these Olympics today. A winner’s medal from the Games will be auctioned by Künker on 18 June 2024.

The Gnadenpfennig – An Object Between Decoration, Medal, and Coin
Gnadenpfennigs are an extremely rare category of numismatic objects. Künker is proud to offer nine lots in auction 418 on 29 January 2025 that are, or are likely to be, gnadenpfennigs. We explain the purpose of these issues and when they were created.










CAC Grading Service Begins Full Operations
With their famous green stickers, CAC was previously known mainly for the evaluation of high-grade coins already certified by other grading services. After a test phase, CAC has now fully launched its own grading service.
2-Euro Ticker: New 2-Euro Coins in June 2024
Much has happened in the 2-euro coin world in the past four weeks: new motifs for 2024 were announced and four coins were issued – however, there were some problems.