Starting price: 100000€"Louis-Philippe I 1830-1848, Essai 100 francs, AU 32.99 g.
PCGS SPECIMEN 64 DEEP CAMEO"
Auktion XVII – Monaco 20241032
Starting price: 100000€"Carlo Emanuele II - Reggenza 1638-1648
10 Scudi, Torino, 1641, AU 32.46 g.
NGC AU 58"
Auktion XVII – Monaco 20241235
Starting price: 50000€"Napoleon, 5 francs Essai, AN XI (1803), Paris
NGC PROOF 61"
Auktion XVII – Monaco 2024974
Starting price: 50000€"Francesco Contarini, doge XCV, 1623-1624
Zecchino (R5)"
Auktion XVII – Monaco 20241221
Starting price: 40000€"Ludovico XII d'Orleans, Doppio ducato, 1500-1513, AU 6,99 g.
NGC MS 64 "
Auktion XVII – Monaco 20241165
Starting price: 50000€"Amedeo I, 100 Pesetas, Madrid, 1871, AU 33.30 g.
25 ex. "Oro amarillo""
Auktion XVII – Monaco 2024911
Starting price: 30000€"Louis XIV, gold Medal, 1643-1715, Lyon, AU 57.49 g.
NGC MS 61 PROOF LIKE"
Auktion XVII – Monaco 2024951
Starting price: 30000€"Peter III , 10 Roubles, Saint-Pétersbourg, 1762
NGC AU 53"
Auktion XVII – Monaco 20241394
Starting price: 75000€"Gabriel Bethlen, 10 ducats, 1620 - 1621, AU 34.90 g.
NGC AU 58."
Auktion XVII – Monaco 2024720
Starting price: 75000€"Sigismund Rákóczi, 10 Ducats, Kolozsvár, 1607, AU 34.92 g.
Ex Collection George Gund, NGC AU 55"
Auktion XVII – Monaco 2024688

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Friedrich III. auf seinem weißen Hengst bei der Verteidigung Kopenhagens 1659. Gemalt von Frederik Christian Lund, 1887. Bilder: Hintergrund: Wikimedia Commons / CC0. Münze: Auktion SINCONA 94 (22.-23. Oktober 2024), Nr. 1616.

Frederick III of Denmark and Eben Ezer

SINCONA’s Auctions 92 to 95 will take place from 21 to 25 October 2024. This article introduces one of the many rarities up for sale: a so-called “Ebenezer” coin from Denmark. The 4-Ducat piece is extremely rare and of great historical interest.

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CIT’s Underwater Fantasy – Mermaids

The more we learn about the underwater world, its colorful, bizarrely shaped creatures and the sunken testaments to mankind, the more it captures our imagination and inspires our dreams. CIT translated this feeling into a numismatic shape. From a technical point of view, the application of enamel reproducing underwater visuals is highly remarkable.

Elagabal. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Foto: UK.

Elagabalus’ New Transgender Identity and Its Consequences on the Coin Trade

The North Hertfordshire Museum has pulled off an ingenious PR coup: the institution publicly announced that they will no longer refer to Elagabalus as “he” but as “she”. Ursula Kampmann explores how this might affect the coin trade.

Paul Russell, NYINC Chairman, at the CoinsWeekly booth to take a mandatory picture with Ursula Kampmann. Photo: CoinsWeekly.

NYINC: The Favourite of All Those Who Love Ancient Coins

Why is the New York International Numismatic Convention the top place to go when it comes to ancient coins? Ursula Kampmann has the answer and explains what will be new and different in New York in 2024.

Discover the last ever coins produced by Pobjoy Mint.

The Last Coin of the Pobjoy Mint

With the end of November, the history of the Pobjoy Mint also comes to an end today. The mint’s final issue is a Pegasus with a special mintmark for Taya Pobjoy. There is also a gold version of the coin with a mintage of 1.

Wolfram Weiser (Johannes Heinrichs, Werner Eck (edd.)), Die Geldwährung des Römischen Reiches. Untersuchungen zu den Münzsystemen der mittleren und späten Kaiserzeit. Antiquitas I, 79. Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 2023. 247 S. 23x17 cm. 978-3-7749-4391-9. 60 EUR.

A Great Numismatist’s Important Book Published Posthumously

About a year after Wolfram Weisers death, his book on the currency of the Roman Empire has been published. Prof. Johannes Nollé has taken a closer look at this important German study.

More than 2 million dimes were stolen while being transported from the US Mint in Philadelphia to Miami. Photo: BrayLockBoy / CC BY-SA 4.0.

The Great Philly Pocket Change Heist

In the US, four men are standing trial as they allegedly stole coins worth 234,500 dollars from a truck. That was a ton of work. since their loot consisted of more than 2 million dimes, which were difficult to transport and even harder to spend…