Innholdsfortegnelse for January 2020 i World Coin News

Catherine the Great. One of the most important rulers of the 18th century, her name is still a byword to historians well acquainted with European and Russian history. She was born in humble circumstances but rose to be one of the most powerful women of all time, with many accomplishments marking her long reign. Her death in November 1796 was a milestone of history by any standard. Sophia, as Catherine was known until 1744, was born in April 1729 at the German city of Stettin, where her father Christian Augustus was a garrison commander for Prussian King Frederick II. Not long afterwards, Christian became prince of Anhalt-Zerbst. His wife, Johanna Elizabeth, had pretensions of grandeur which had some basis as her brother had nearly married the Empress Elizabeth of Russia…

Welcome to the 2020 Coin Show & Auction Guide. This special supplement to Numismatic News, World Coin News and Bank Note Reporter features the hobby’s most complete listing of coin shows and auction firms. The guide is divided into three separate sections. First, the Auction Guide pages provide an alphabetical listing of auction firms. Next, the Show Guide section provides geographical details about numismatic shows scheduled for the year. Finally, for a chronological listing of coin shows, turn to the Showdex section.…

Missing Link In Auction We often associate the term “missing link” with some Neanderthal-type ape, but what do you envision when someone suggests they’ve found a missing link between primitive money and coins as money? What if rather than that missing link being gold rings, something resembling a knife, or a stone with a hole drilled through it, the object was a drop- or jug-shaped 0.9854 silver 41.55 g weight ingot on which a hieroglyphic cartouche reads: “Tutankhamen, ruler of Heliopolis in Upper Egypt.” This object was offered as lot number 101 in the Nov. 18-19 Numismatica Genevensis SA auction held in Geneva, Switzerland. The so-called ‘boy king’ Tutankhamen ruled Egypt in 1345-1327 BCE towards the end of the 18th dynasty. About that time 45.5 g was expressed as either…

Gold ‘discs’ were struck at the Philadelphia Mint for Saudi Arabia in 1945 to 1947. Were these meant to be coins or bullion? It is now legal to own gold in the United States, but at the time the ‘large’ and ‘small’ gold discs were struck for Aramco (Arabian-American Oil Company) the U.S. Mint indicated the discs were to be treated as bullion and were not authorized to be imported into the United States. Nonetheless, Current Coins of the World author Richard Yeoman cataloged them as being valued at one British sovereign (small disc) and four sovereigns (large disc). Monnaie de Paris, the French Mint, is headquartered in Paris. Are the coins of France struck there? The production mint of France is located in Pessac since 1973. The Paris location…

The World Coin News club show and commercial events calendar is a guide to events with a focus for world-coin collectors. Domestic events scheduled up to 10 weeks in advance of the issue date and foreign events up to six months in advance are listed. Abbreviations used: “A” – Admission charge; “T” – number of tables; “F” – Table fee; “N/A” – not available. Other data required for submitting a listing: name and address of show site, and name and address of bourse chairman or other contact person. JANUARY Jan 4 TN, Knoxville. Knoxville Coin & Currency Show. Rothchild Catering & Conference Center, 8807 Kingston Pike. SH: 9am - 4pm. A: Free. T: 20. F: $65. Robert Bruner, POB 465, Strawberry Plains, TN, 37871. PH: 865- 660-8692 or beavercreekcoins@gmail.com. Jan…

Auction Guide The Auction Guide section provides an alphabetical listing of auction firms. AAA Historical Americana - World Exonumia, P.O. Box 4143, Rockford, IL 61110; (815) 226-0771; fax (815) 301-9696; email hartzog@exonumia.com; website www.exonumia.com. B. Ahlstrom Mynthandel AB, Radmansgatan 21, 114 25 Stockholm, Sweden; (46) 08-10-10-10; fax (46) 08-678-77-77. Stephen P. Alpert’s Exonumia, P.O. Box 335441,North Las Vegas, NV 89033-5441; (702) 473-9071; email quadra1@cox.net. Archives International LLC, 1580 Lemoine Ave., Suite 7, Fort Lee, NJ 07024; (201) 944-4800. Arneson Auction Service, 6902 Icon Ave., Sparta, WI 54656; (608) 797-5086. Astarte S.A., Via Cantonale, 1/A, CH-6900 Lugano, Switzerland.; 0041 (0)91 923 3640; fax 0041 (0) 91 922 55 74; email info@astartesa.com. Auctions Unlimited, P.O. Box 5595, Phoenix, AZ 85010; (480) 998-4001. Baldwin’s Auctions Ltd., 11 Adelphi Terrace, London WC2N 6BJ, England;…