By Christopher Dahncke – Currency Auction Associate, Stack’s Bowers Galleries …… The 2023 January New York International Numismatic Convention (NYINC) auction from Stack’s Bowers Galleries is shaping up to be an exciting sale. We will be featuring the Richard Rosenman Collection of Venezuelan Banknotes; stay tuned for a future blog on that exciting offering. Among […]
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By Christopher Dahncke – Currency Auction Associate, Stack’s Bowers Galleries …… The 2023 January New York International Numismatic Convention (NYINC) auction from Stack’s Bowers Galleries is shaping up to be an exciting sale. We will be featuring the Richard Rosenman Collection of Venezuelan Banknotes; stay tuned for a future blog on that exciting offering. […]
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By Jan Nieuwenhuijs for Gainesville Coins …… In , it’s a state secret where the central bank stores its gold domestically. From all the information I could gather, I conclude that the Swiss central bank primarily stores its gold—and that of foreign central banks and the Bank for International Settlements—on Bundesplatz 1 in the capital […]
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By David Yoon for American Numismatic Society (ANS) …… Something we are asked from time to time is how much a past coin was worth in terms of present-day money. It can be hard enough sometimes to say what the coin was worth at the time it was in circulation. Equating it to present-day money […]
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By Everett Millman – Gainesville Coins …… New economic sanctions against Russia will target the country’s gold exports. Several of the Group of 7 nations (known as the G7) have banned any Russian gold from entering their countries as of Sunday, June 26. Who is Banning Russian Gold? In addition to the United Kingdom, the United […]
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By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek ….. Popularized in the 1560s by French Huguenots and Scottish Presbyterians, communion tokens quickly became a staple of northern Calvinism. These tokens first came into use as a result of an admonition by the French theologian and reformer during the Protestant Reformation. He stated that in order “to prevent the […]
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By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ….. All Gaul is divided into three parts, one of which the Belgae inhabit, the Aquitani another, those who in their own language are called Celts, in ours Gauls, the third. All these differ from each other in language, customs and laws (Caesar, 1). FOR MOST AMERICANS, “Celtic” means […]
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The 38th renewal of the British Numismatic Trade Association’s premier international show, COINEX—a much-anticipated annual numismatic event—took place this last weekend, and it easily lived up to its reputation as one of the more important international numismatic events for both British and foreign dealers. To many, the show was a resounding success, with greater attendance figures and an increased list of dealer-participants as compared to past years