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Sir Stamford Raffles: Collecting in Southeast Asia 1811-1824 17. October 2019
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781 – 1826) spent most of his career as an East India Company official in Southeast Asia. He was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Java in 1811 and assumed the Lieutenant Governorship of Sumatra in 1818. Raffles is …
Maximilian I’s Legendary Armor in New York 17. October 2019
The first major exhibition to focus on the critical role that armor played in the life and ambitions of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519) will open at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 7, 2019. Coinciding with the …
Alessandro Magnaguti. The Last Coin Collector from the House of Gonzaga 17. October 2019
How far would you go in order to get your hands on a certain coin? Of course, this is mainly a question of money. Anyways, Alessandro Magnaguti is said to have restored the entire monastery of Castiglione delle Stiviere in …
Application for HKINF 2019 Is Open 17. October 2019
With exhibitors & visitors from more than 50 countries and regions, HKINF is Asia’s leading numismatic event featuring both coins and currency. Along with the world’s largest numismatic auction house, Heritage Auctions, HKINF enables you to make an extraordinary journey …
PMG Announces Grading Services for Bond and Stock Certificates 17. October 2019
Paper Money Guaranty® (PMG®) has announced that it is now grading and encapsulating most bond and stock certificates. Bond and stock certificate collecting, known by specialists as “scripophily,” is an important subset of numismatics that has achieved greater recognition in …
The Royal Mint Celebrates 50 Years of the 50p 17. October 2019
To celebrate fifty years of the revolutionary seven-sided 50p coin, The Royal Mint has released a commemorative 50p bearing the original 1969 Britannia New Pence design. The coin also bears special privy marks, one of which is a minting first …
Homer Simpson on Tuvalu’s Gold Coin 17. October 2019
First introduced in 1987, the Simpson family originally appeared in 30-second segments on The Tracey Ullman Show. Two years later, The Simpsons premiered as a half-hour series and instantly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon, now seen in 60 countries in …
A Numismatic Restoration Project Needs Your Vote! 16. October 2019
The responsibility for the preservation of cultural heritage lies with the state, the institutions do not let anybody else interfere with this matter. But what happens if the state does not fulfil this task because it does not dispose of …
Coin Dealers From All Over the World at Coinex in London 10. October 2019
CoinsWeekly made it its mission to visit some central coin fairs each year and to support them with a CoinsWeekly Special Issue. Coinex is one of these fairs and there are good reasons for that. Although the fair is not …
New ICOMON Board Members Elected 10. October 2019
The International Council of Museums (ICOM) is the world organisation of museums and museum professionals. The International Committee for Money and Banking Museums (ICOMON) is ICOM’s forum for museums of numismatics and museums of financial and economic institutions or companies …