Entries by Peter Terhorst

Classical Numismatic Group

Classical Numismatic Group ⸱ Electronic Auction 541 ⸱ 28 June 2023 ⸱ Online

CNG’s Electronic Auction 541 includes 1134 lots. Greek tetradrachms and world talers from the Don T. Hayes Collection again headline the auction, accompanied by a further offering of coins from the Dr. Michael Slavin Collection.

Münzen & Medaillen GmbH

Münzen & Medaillen GmbH ⸱ Auction 50 ⸱ 27 June 2023 ⸱ Weil am Rhein

For the 50th Floor Auction, Münzen & Medaillen GmbH is offering an impressive selection of more than 1,100 lots with high-quality coins and medals from antiquity to modern times, as well as numismatic literature.

Kolbe & Fanning

Kolbe & Fanning ⸱ Sale 167 ⸱ 10 June 2023 ⸱ Online

Kolbe & Fanning present their upcoming sale of 450 lots. Auction 167 includes important and out-of-print works on coins, medals, and paper money from antiquity to the present.

SINCONA AG

SINCONA AG ⸱ Auction 82-83 ⸱ 15-17 May 2023 ⸱ Zurich

From a total estimate of 5.82 million francs, SINCONA more than doubled to a result of 12.86 million francs. See the highlights of the spring auctions here!

International Conference on Islamic Numismatics

From 18 to 20 May 2023, the ICIN – the International Conference on Islamic Numismatics – took place in Riyadh, Saudi-Arabia. A complete success! Never before have so many specialists on Islamic numismatics gathered in one place. Ursula Kampmann was there.

Aleksander Bursche Receives GIG Honorary Prize 2023

Aleksander Bursche will receive the 2023 Honorary Prize of the Gesellschaft für Internationale Geldgeschichte (GIG, Association for International History of Money). Not only his numismatic research work was decisive for this.

Raymond Weiller (1938-2022)

Only now it became known that Raymond Weiller, the former head of the coin cabinet of the Luxembourg National Museum, passed away in April 2022. Jean Krier remembers the distinguished Luxembourg numismatist.

Panticapaeum Stater Most Expensive Ancient Coin

A gold stater from the city of Panticapaeum is currently the most expensive ancient coin ever sold at auction. In May 2023, it was sold by Numismatica Ars Classica in Switzerland for the record sum of 5,390,000 CHF or ca. $6 million.

From Taler to Mark: The Long Road to a Common Currency

As Germany gradually evolved into a nation-state in the 19th century, the many currencies that circulated in its territories were also unified step by step. Coins from the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in Künker’s auction 388 illustrate the long path from the taler to the mark.