Starting price: 30000 €AKRAGAS. Tetradrachm. Pedigree 1925SUBASTA EXTRAORDINARIA 4225546
Starting price: 4300 €SICILY/CATANIA-SIRACUSA. TetradrachmSUBASTA EXTRAORDINARIA 4225579
Starting price: 3000 €BRUTTIUM-RHEGION. TetradrachmSUBASTA EXTRAORDINARIA 4225419
Starting price: 2600 €SICILY/CAMARINA. Tetradrachm. Pedigree 1991SUBASTA EXTRAORDINARIA 4225550
Starting price: 2250 €CALCIDIA-MENDE. Tetradrachm. Pedirgree 1993SUBASTA EXTRAORDINARIA 4225427
Starting price: 2250 €SICILY-LEONTINI. Tetradrachm. Pedigree 1988SUBASTA EXTRAORDINARIA 4225557
Starting price: 1700 €CARIA-KOS. Lysichos. TetradrachmSUBASTA EXTRAORDINARIA 4225475
Starting price: 1650 €TRACIA-AINOS. Tetradrachm. Pedigree 1992SUBASTA EXTRAORDINARIA 4225591
Starting price: 1600 €SICILY-KATANA. TetradrachmSUBASTA EXTRAORDINARIA 4225554
Starting price: 1500 €SICILY-SIRACUSA. Agathokles. TetradrachmSUBASTA EXTRAORDINARIA 4225581

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Gaius Iulius Vindex. Denar, zwischen März und Mai 68, Vienne(?). Äußerst selten. Vorzüglich. Taxe: 1.500 Euro. Aus Auktion Heidelberger Münzhandlung 89 (12. November 2024), Nr. 113. Hintergrund: Büste Neros, im Kapitolnischen Museum in Rom (cjh1452000 - CC BY-SA 3.0) und Büste Galbas im Stockholmer Schloss (Wolfgang Sauber / CC BY-SA 3.0).

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.

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RNS Early Career Lectures 2024: Call for Papers!

The Royal Numismatic Society is looking for two students or early career professionals to give a lecture to its members in February 2024. As this will take place over Zoom everybody from all over the world is encouraged to submit a proposal soon!

Jere L. Bacharach (1938-2023)

Jere L. Bacharach, expert on Islamic numismatics, died in April 2023. The ANS remembers its long-time member of the Board of Trustees, and an invaluable scholar of the numismatic community and Middle Eastern studies.

Highly Rare in Circulation: 2-Euro Commemorative Coins from San Marino

San Marino’s circulation coins are rare – even in the small Republic itself. And San Marino also issued just a few 2-euro commemorative coins. A real challenge for collectors. Fortunately, numiscontrol has some tips.

Further Thefts at Royal Coin Cabinet Brought to Trial

The systematic thefts at the Royal Coin Cabinet in Stockholm were not committed by one single person. Another employee helped himself to some objects. At present, prosecutors are trying to prove the man stole coins worth more than 3.8 million Swedish kronor, including a Russian family ruble which sold for 510,000 SEK in 2009.

Stockholm: Lawsuit against Royal Coin Cabinet thief

In April we had to report that at least 1,200 objects worth the equivalent of 2.6 million euros had disappeared from the Stockholm Royal Coin Cabinet. A perpetrator is now standing trial. A second one is the subject of ongoing investigations.

The Royal Coin Cabinet in Stockholm is going to be closed and stripped down

The Swedish national museum of economy is going to be closed down. This entails the relocation of the Royal Coin Cabinet and its notable library. At this point, no one knows where, when or how the coins and books will be available again. Harald Nilsson reports.