Archive: People and Markets

CoinsWeekly Special Issue for the TICC Tokyo 2025

After overwhelming interest in the last years, we have once again published a printed CoinsWeekly Special Issue for TICC 2025, which takes place in Tokyo from April 26 to 28. If you can’t make it to Tokyo, you can download the PDF here.

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Oesterreichische Nationalbank (publisher): In God We Trust. Divine Money. Catalogue for the special exhibition in the money museum of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank. Self-published, Vienna 2023. 88 pp, colour illustrations, softcover, 24.5 x 19.5 cm.

In God We Trust

In God we trust. Do we still trust in God? In recent years, there has been much debate on whether coins and banknotes should continue to refer to divine powers. The Austrian National Bank dedicated an exhibition to the question of why money is so closely linked to religion. Ursula Kampmann takes a look at the catalogue.

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Ursula Kampmann with Keith Twitchell at the 2024 NYINC. Foto: Sebastian Wieschowski.

ACCG Introduces Their New Executive Director

Since January 1, 2024 the Ancient Coin Collectors Guild has had a new Executive Director: Keith Twitchell. Twitchell replaces Peter Tompa, who will remain active on the ACCG Board of Directors

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Coat of arms give way to flora and fauna: The Royal Mint have unveiled the new reverse designs for the circulation coinage of the United Kingdom. Learn more about the new designs here.

Royal Mint Unveil New Charles III Reverse Designs for Circulation Coinage

Coat of arms give way to flora and fauna: the Royal Mint have unveiled the new reverse designs for the circulation coinage of the United Kingdom. Learn more about the new designs here.

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Archive: Coins, Medals and more

Napoleon III, painting by Alexandre Cabanel, around 1865. It was the favourite portrait of Empress Eugénie because it was the most accurate depiction of him.

French History in Coins – Part 3: A New Napoleon

Under Emperor Napoleon III, France experienced an economic upswing. The Paris cityscape was completely revamped, just as coin designs. The gold rush in the US thrust Europe’s silver money into a crisis. The answer came from France.

A Medal Made by Dürer as the Official Gift of the City of Nuremberg for Charles V

On 29 January 2025, auction house Künker will be auctioning an object of major art-historical importance in Berlin: the very Albrecht Dürer himself had been commissioned by the Nuremberg City Council to create the dies for medals that were to be officially handed to Charles V during his entry into the city in 1521.
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