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Jul 11, 2024 | 
new.coinsweekly.com | Peter Terhorst
On August 9, a new exhibition will open its doors at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. “Money Talks: Art, Society & Power” delves into the complex, tense and often humorous relationship between art, money and society.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
new.coinsweekly.com | Peter Terhorst
During a period of political instability in the Bohemian states, an unknown person hid a large number of coins near the present-day town of Kutná Hora. It took 900 years for the treasure to be unearthed: a woman out for a walk found some coins on a freshly ploughed field and immediately contacted the authorities. What she found is described by experts as one of the country’s most important coin hoards of the last 10 years.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
new.coinsweekly.com | Peter Terhorst
Almost exactly a quarter of a century ago, in the spring of 1999, the USA experienced a downright numismatic revolution. The State Quarters Program issued by the United States Mint presented all 50 federal states. Every coin had an individual design representing a specific state. This creative approach attracted millions of people and caused numerous citizens to catch the numismatic bug.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
new.coinsweekly.com | Peter Terhorst
Estimated price: 300 EURSeleukid Kingdom, Demetrios II Nikator. AR Tetradrachm, 14.31 g. - 27.79 mm. First reign,Auction 1776Estimated price: 420 EURPtolemaic Kings of Egypt. Cleopatra VII Thea Neotera, 51-30 BC. AE. 15.05 g. 26.29 mm. Alexandria.Auction 17101Estimated price: 2800 EURIonia, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Archepolis, son of Themistokles, AR, Drachm. 3.95 g. - 19.04 mm. ★ EXTREMELY RARE DRACHM ★Auction 17211Estimated price: 240 EURIonia, Magnesia ad Maeandrum. Themistokles, ca. 465-459 BC.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
new.coinsweekly.com | Peter Terhorst
Railroad history is linked to numismatics in many ways. Fascinating large-scale projects were often celebrated with medals and commemorative coins. Our example takes us to Georgia, where a tunnel has reduced the gradient of the Transcaucasus Railway since 1890. A medal that will be offered for auction on 18 June 2024 by Künker commemorates the opening of the Suram Tunnel. Many collectors are fascinated by coins and medals that focus on the topic of the railroad.
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May 29, 2024 | 
new.coinsweekly.com | Peter Terhorst
Commemorative coins were a rare phenomenon in the 19th century. During the first 25 years of Emperor Franz Joseph’s reign, there were only two occasions that he honored with a commemorative coin: his wedding to “Sisi” and the completion of the Austrian Southern Railway (Vollendung der Oesterreichischen Südbahn) in 1857. All the contemporaries who came to know about this commemorative coin in 1857 were well aware of how important this project was to the Habsburg empire.
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May 23, 2024 | 
new.coinsweekly.com | Peter Terhorst
On 18 June 2024, the Künker auction house in Osnabrück will offer a ‘gold’ medal from the 1906 Olympics in Athens, of which probably only 78 specimens were produced. As was customary at the time, the medal is of course not made of pure gold, but gilded silver. Interestingly enough, the 1906 Olympics do not appear on the IOC’s list of Games. We explain why these Olympic Games are no longer recognized as such.
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May 23, 2024 | 
new.coinsweekly.com | Peter Terhorst
Estimated price: 20,000 CHFPoseidonia. Circa 530-500 BC. AR Stater.LEU Numismatic Auction 1510Estimated price: 25,000 CHFDerrones. Circa 480-465 BC. AR Tetrastater or Dodekadrachm.LEU Numismatic Auction 1540Estimated price: 25,000 CHFUncertain Ionia. Circa 650-600 BC. EL Stater.LEU Numismatic Auction 1593Estimated price: 10,000 CHFTigranes the Younger. 77-66 BC. AR Tetradrachm.LEU Numismatic Auction 15128Estimated price: 50,000 CHFBar Kokhba Revolt. 132-135 CE.
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May 16, 2024 | 
new.coinsweekly.com | Peter Terhorst
After being safeguarded for a century, the highly important Bruun Collection is scheduled to be sold in a series of auctions by Stack’s Bowers Galleries commencing in autumn 2024 (click here to read the report on the sale). Now the National Museum of Denmark has used its right of first refusal to buy seven unique coins from the coin collection of the butter merchant Lars Emil Bruun before the pieces come under the hammer.
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May 16, 2024 | 
new.coinsweekly.com | Peter Terhorst
The Naseby Cup is a Victorian vessel of extraordinary numismatic importance, as many incredibly rare coins from the English Civil war are integrated into it. A publication on the cup and its coins will soon be available. One of the most exceptional numismatic objects in the world, the Naseby Cup in the Yale University Art Gallery was commissioned by John and Mary Frances Fitzgerald, Lord and Lady of the Manor at Naseby, in Northamptonshire, England.
