Archive: People and Markets
Acquisition of a Highly Significant Ensemble for the Coin Cabinet in Vienna
The Kunsthistorisches Museum has acquired 22 coins of the imperial couple Regalianus and Dryantilla and made them digitally accessible. This is all the more impressive considering that only about 160 coins of this imperial couple are known worldwide. These are the only Roman coins that were minted in what is now Austria.
British Museum Sets Out Plans to Digitize Fully the Collection
After the disappearance of thousands of objects, the British Museum aims to document all of their over 2 million objects within the next five years and make them available online. Mark Jones on why he wants to increase access to the objects now.
Archive: Coins, Medals and more

In Search of the Big Five
The Big Five – they are the stars on South Africa's commemorative coins. We visit the elephant, lion, rhino, buffalo, and leopard in their most famous reserve, the Kruger National Park. Let's see how many of the iconic five we can capture (with the camera).


















New RNS Research Fund for Asian Numismatics
The Royal Numismatic Society announced the establishment of a new fund which aims to enable curators and students based in Asia to visit the UK to study Asian coin and money collections.
Our Event Sites for the Coin Fairs in Basel and Munich
On the last weekend in February and the first weekend in March, two coin fairs took place that we didn’t want to miss: First the Basel Coin Fair, then the NUMISMATA in Munich. You can find our impressions of the fairs on two event sites.