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Welcome to Coin Update! We’re back with another fresh round up of coin collecting news and articles from around the internet! First, the unusual state of our circulation coinage and the new legislative proposal to strike cents and nickels from steel. Also, more articles following the suspension of production for $1 coins, two coin market [...]

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Welcome to Coin Update! We’re back with a fresh round up of coin collecting news and articles from around the internet! To start, the latest US Mint numismatic product sales report, which shows a slow down for virtually everything. Also, 2011 Gold Buffalo sales, ATB Silver Bullion Coin production, classic commemorative coins, ancient coin collecting, [...]

International numismatic treasures highlighted by rare German, Polish and South American coins, as well as the largest gold coin in the world, a Chinese 321+ ounce Beijing Olympics gold 100,000 Yuan DALLAS, TX – As the profile of Heritage Auctions’ World & Ancient Coins category has continued to skyrocket over the last few years, each [...]

Researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton have launched a research project in which nuclear radiation is used to identify changes in metal content among ancient Greek and Roman coins held in a world-class collection amassed at the university since the 1940s. By probing the metal content of coins exchanged thousands of years ago in Mediterranean [...]

The classification of cultures generally tracks along two interrelated lines: chronological and geographical. Chronologically, the primary divisions of coinage are almost universally accepted as being Ancient, Medieval and Modern. Within the United States, collectors tend to separate U.S. coins from the modern coins of other nations by referring to the latter as “World Coins.” Coins [...]

Below are the Top Ten prices for a sale of Islamic, Ancient, British and World Coins Medals and Memorabilia relating to Edward VIII Historical and Renaissance Medals and Plaquettes, held at London specialist auctioneers Morton & Eden on Thursday November 11. The surprise of the sale was the outstanding price paid for the Roman aureus [...]

By Wayne Sayles – Ancient Coin Collecting Blog The classification of cultures generally tracks along two interrelated lines: chronological and geographical. For centuries, coin collectors struggled with the lack of a coherent system for cataloguing the vast array of issues from antiquity through the modern era. Joseph Eckhel (1737-1798), a secularized Jesuit abbot who served [...]

This week I was treated to a smorgasbord of views on cultural property from members of the archaeological and collecting communities. On Tuesday morning, I listened with interest to the presentations of several archaeologists at the U.S. State Department’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC) in Washington, DC. This was my fifth appearance at a CPAC [...]