The American Numismatic Society (ANS) is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Dr. Jere L. Bacharach on April 9, 2023. Dr. Bacharach was a long-time member of the Board of Trustees and an invaluable scholar of the numismatic community and Middle Eastern studies. Jere Bacharach was born in 1938 in New York. He received […]
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By Numismatica Genevensis SA …… Anyone interested in truly top-class numismatics will have been following Numismatica Genevensis’ auctions for years. They are a pretty rare occurrence, but they always feature numerous coins preserved in the best possible condition. On November 14 and 15, the time has finally come again. Across three auction catalogues, Numismatica Genevensis […]
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By David Yoon for American Numismatic Society (ANS) …… Some questions seem too obvious to be worth asking. Everyone knows that a mint is a production facility that strikes coins. But wait… are facilities that produce tokens or medals included? Is it really the facility at all, or rather the organization that operates it? Or […]
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By David Yoon for American Numismatic Society (ANS) …… This essay is being written on December 31, 2021, to be posted on January 4, 2022. It seems like a suitable moment to think about calendars and years and how people define them. The presence of year dates on coins is tremendously useful to the […]
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by David Yoon for the American Numismatic Society… This essay is being written on December 31, 2021, to be posted on January 4, 2022. It seems like a suitable moment to think about calendars and years and how people define them. The presence of year dates on coins is tremendously useful to the numismatist—probably more […]
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By Ellen Nye and David Yoon for American Numismatic Society (ANS) …… In August 2018, as the country of Turkey faced a currency crisis, its president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called for people to convert their dollars or euros into Turkish lira. The Turkish lira had dropped by almost 50% against the dollar in the previous […]
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By Oliver Hoover for American Numismatic Society (ANS) …… On April 1, 2021, the Associated Press ran a story about a handful of small silver coins from 17th-century Yemen found by metal detectorists in New England and the theory advanced by Jim Bailey that these coins actually represent pirate plunder. In fact, he argues that […]
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By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek ….. The Dokos Shipwreck, the oldest in the world, was discovered by the father of underwater archaeology, Peter Throckmorton, after almost four thousand years on August 23, 1975. A simple pile of ceramics and stone anchors and other stone items devoid of all biodegradable organic material, this wreck, unfortunately, contains […]
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By Jay Turner for PCGS …… AH1299 (1882) 10 D Lec-188 Paris Morocco PCGS MS64 The Hijri Lunar Dating System The Hijri lunar dating system is the second-most used calendar after the Common Era or Gregorian calendar. Established with the first year corresponding to the year 622 CE (Common Era or AD), it is set […]
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By Numismatica Genevensis SA…. On January 28, the exhibition ‘Coins of Islam: History Revealed’ opened at Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre in Abu Dhabi. The exhibition, which runs until April 28, was inaugurated by His Highness Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs) under the Patronage of Her […]
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By CoinWeek News Staff …. On Sunday, December 29–the fourth night of Hanukkah–the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery of seven Islamic gold coins dating back to the seventh century. The find was made at a large site southeast of the town of Yavne (Tel Yavneh) in the center of Israel during an IAA-funded […]
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Numismatic Guaranty Corporation® (NGC®) has certified an extremely rare and historically important Islamic gold coin struck in the seventh century. The Umayyad Dinar is dated AH77, the Islamic calendar equivalent of 696 AD, and was struck under the fifth Umayyad caliph, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan. Caliph Marwan is an important figure in Islamic history because […]
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A special three-day auction event at Heritage’s Dallas World Headquarters (3500 Maple Avenue) kicks off on Wednesday, November 7 with two floor sessions devoted exclusively to the Eric P. Newman Collection. A full slate of U.S. Coins Signature sessions follow beginning on Thursday, November 8, with the Premier Session on Thursday evening, and two floor […]
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The American Numismatic Society (ANS) is pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of The Colonial Newsletter (CNL). Founded in 1960, CNL has continuously published some of the most scholarly and seminal studies in the area of Colonial numismatics. Editor Christopher McDowell states that “this just might be the best issue ever.” Throughout […]
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By Joël van Dam – Owner of Joëlnumismatics, for MA-Shops.com …… When is a coin an Islamic coin? Before we can answer this question we should have a little historic background information. In the year 622 AD, Muhammad left the city of Mecca because the Meccan authorities didn’t like his religious teachings (for several reasons). […]
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This is your opportunity to realize top market price for your numismatic items at the Stack’s Bowers ANA World’s Fair of Money Auction By Stack’s Bowers Galleries …… In August 2017, in Denver, Colorado, Stack’s Bowers Galleries will host an official auction in support of the most popular collectors’ organization in the hobby. Numismatists from […]
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Description: Algeria is a predominantly Muslim country located on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa. It’s neighbors to the east are Tunisia and Libya. To the west, Algeria borders Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania and Mali. For a hundred years, Algeria was under the colonial control of France, which forced its control upon the people of […]
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By Coin & Currency Institute …. The previous edition of Gold Coins of the World, by Arthur L. Friedberg and Ira S. Friedberg, was published eight years ago in 2009. That edition–the eighth–and each one before it descended from the original, groundbreaking 1958 work by Robert Friedberg, whose cataloging and numbering system revolutionized the way […]
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By Coinweek …. CoinWeek News Wire for November 4, 2016 Canada 150 1.) Royal Canadian Mint unveils its 2017 Canada 150 circulation coin series The Royal Canadian Mint has unveiled its 2017 Canada 150 circulation coin series featuring the work of five Canadians selected by popular vote to design the tails side of the […]
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By Coinweek …. CoinWeek News Wire for October 21, 2016 Brain Food 1.) What is the Average Lifespan of a Coin? Coins are tough little devils. Over the course of a coins’ lifespan, they will be dropped, kicked, stepped on, possibly run over by a vehicle, or involved in some children’s experiment to discover just how […]
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Islamic Gold Dinar By Everett Millman – Gainesville Coins ……. One major development in the global gold market over the last decade has been the liberalization of gold ownership laws in China. This has opened up an incredible flood of new demand for precious metals from the world’s most populous country. There’s still another huge […]
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Kolbe & Fanning have been augmenting their online bookstore, substantially expanding offerings of numismatic books for direct retail sale at fixed prices. Their online bookstore, on the main Kolbe & Fanning website at www.numislit.com, currently includes over 1350 titles spanning the entire world of numismatics. While many numismatists associate Kolbe & Fanning strictly with auctions, […]
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Kolbe & Fanning Numismatic Booksellers have published a new fixed-price list focusing on Russian numismatic literature. The 300-item PDF catalogue can be downloaded or viewed on the Kolbe & Fanning website at www.numislit.com. The catalogue includes material from the library of Quentin Archer, generally consisting of modern books, periodicals and auction catalogues on Russian coins […]
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By CoinWeek News Staff…. In a press release issued Tuesday, February 17, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) reported that the largest treasure of gold coins ever discovered in Israeli territory had been recovered from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea in the harbor of the ancient city of Caesarea. Winter storms in the area […]
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CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz… BY THE BEGINNING of the seventh century, the lands of the Eastern Mediterranean had been ravaged by plague, earthquake and decades of war between the Eastern Roman (“Byzantine”) and Sasanian Persian empires. Along the coast, the great cities were mostly Greek-speaking. In the fertile hill country, villagers spoke […]
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