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Heavy Gold Coins – Special Gifts for Special People

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Have you ever wondered why there were so many large gold coins weighing several ducats in the early modern period? We’ll show you with the help of some spectacular examples from the upcoming Numismatica Genevensis auction   It’s easy to forget that in the early modern period, coins weren’t used as we use them today. […]

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Medieval Coins of Portugal

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By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ….. Portugal, a small, narrow country on the Atlantic coast of the Iberian peninsula … was created during the Christian reconquest of the peninsula from the Moors. Unlike other lands that eventually became Spain, Portugal asserted and maintained its independence, emerging at the end of the Middle Ages as a […]

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