Archive: People and Markets
Pop Culture & Coins Unite! The National Coin Week 2025
What do Homer Simpson, the Olympic games, Elvis Presley, and Superman have in common? They’ve all been featured, or will soon be featured, on coins. This year’s annual National Coin Week, April 20-26, 2025, explores the fascinating ways pop culture influences money.
Is the EU Sleepwalking Into an Art Market Nightmare?
Enforcement of import licensing for cultural goods is just two years away, but many serious questions remain over what will happen. A detailed insight into a complicated matter.
Archive: Coins, Medals and more

The Roman Civil War of 68/9: The Prelude to the Year of the Four Emperors
Heidelberger Münzhandlung will offer a series of coins of impeccable quality struck during the Roman Civil War at its auction on 12 and 13 November 2024. We take advantage of this opportunity to examine the historical background of these issues, going back to a time when counter-emperors did not (yet) dare to put their portrait on coins.

Carl Theodor in Bavaria: The Old Nobility Takes Up a New Role
In the context of Künker’s phaleristic sale at the end of October, the Osnabrück auction house will present orders from the estate of Carl Theodor Duke in Bavaria. Carl Theodor is one of the most interesting figures of Bavarian history. In contrast to his famous sister Sisi, he managed to live a fulfilled and self-determined life – as an eye specialist.











From Brutus to Brandt – Digital Exhibition of the Deutsche Bundesbank
The Deutsche Bundesbank presents “From Brutus to Brandt – Coins as a Testimony to Collective Memory”. In this sophisticated digital exhibition, eight coins from antiquity to the present day are examined in detail.
Stack’s Bowers Galleries 2024 Professional Numismatist Program
If you have ever considered making your hobby your profession, the Stack’s Bowers Professional Numismatist Program offers an opportunity to acquire the skills necessary to be successful in this field.