Category Archives: Egyptian Currency

Stack’s Bowers Announces Paradise Collection of World Banknotes

Stacks Bowers Galleries is pleased to announce that they have been chosen to present the Paradise Collection to the numismatic community. This important cabinet features treasures that span the entire globe and represent hundreds of years of history, thoughtfully curated with both quality and prestige in mind. Due to its magnitude and the diversity of […]

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Central Bank of Egypt Begins Migration to Polymer Banknotes

  By De La Rue, plc ….. The new Egyptian 10-pound note (LE10) launched on July 5, 2022, and is the first Egyptian banknote to be printed on polymer substrate. The design of the new ten represents Egypt’s will to embrace positive change and progress toward the new republic whilst retaining the tradition of pharaonic […]

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Spink: Charles I, the Placeholder for King Tutankhamun

Another September rolls around, and with it another pair of banknote shows in Maastricht and London. Spink are holding a total of seven Spink banknotes auctions to coincide with these shows. The World Banknotes sale is another gargantuan one at almost 2000 lots and will take place from 27th – 29th September 2017 in London. […]

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Spink Paper Money – Charles I, the Placeholder for King Tutankhamun

Another September rolls around, and with it another pair of banknote shows in Maastricht and London. Spink are holding a total of seven Spink banknotes auctions to coincide with these shows. The World Banknotes sale is another gargantuan one at almost 2000 lots and will take place from 27th – 29th September 2017 in London. […]

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CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Sphinxes on Ancient Coins

The business of a sphinx is to be mysterious By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ….   …somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs…[1] — W. B. Yeats, “The Second Coming” (1920) IN […]

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CoinWeek News Wire for December 2, 2016

  By Coinweek …. CoinWeek News Wire for December 2, 2016 Current Events 1.) Zimbabwe police fire tear gas at bank note protest “We are not going to embrace bond notes,” Hardlife Mudzingwa, a spokesman for Tajamuka, told AFP. “They are being used to mop up the US dollars that people have in their accounts so […]

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Spink: A Trio of Banknote Auctions

Spink’s eagerly anticipated Autumn World Banknotes sale is here Spink’s esteemed banknote specialist, Barnaby Faull, comments that “It doesn’t seem so long ago when I was a young man (to many of you I still am!) and the banknote department was grudgingly allowed a few banknote lots at the end of a coin sale, how […]

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