Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2022 i World Coin News

Stephen Album Rare Coins held its Auction 44 on Sept. 15-18, at its offices in Santa Rosa, Calif. The prices realized continue the trend of the firm’s successful 2022 auctions, coming in at a strong $2.2 million with a sell-through rate of 95.2 percent. Many items sold for well over their estimates, including some world record results. The Joe Sedillot Collection of World Coins, Part III was instrumental in achieving these results. Highlights include (prices include buyer’s fees): Company COO Mike Barry noted “Our top three auctions of all time were all held in 2022. When we first started our auctions over a decade ago, we were happy if we could achieve a sell through rate of over 80 percent but now we routinely sell around 95 percent of the…

NUMISMATIC LEGACY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II London Bridge has fallen. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II died on Sept.8. She will be remembered to history, not only general history, but to numismatic history as well. Elizabeth, as the longest reigning British monarch, will leave a long and interesting legacy on coins and bank notes. Elizabeth was not the first ruler to appear to age on coinage throughout that person’s reign. The Roman Emperor Nero appeared as a child, then as an adult, and finally as a rather rotund ruler during his short reign lasting from 54 to 68 A.D. At the time of each Caligula’s and later Nero’s demise many of the coins on which either of their images appeared were either defaced or recalled. Today it can be expected the…

During Catherine II’s later years one of the most difficult European problems, that of Poland, was settled. The first partition of Poland had been carried out in 1772 by Russia, Prussia, and Austria, but in 1793 only Russia and Prussia were involved. The 1795 partition, again by all three countries, was the last as there was now nothing left of Poland; it disappeared from the map of Europe until the twentieth century. After the 1793 partition, loyal Poles began to organize to protect what was left of their country. A constitution, based on that adopted by the United States in 1787, was written and submitted to public scrutiny. The government of Catherine II was particularly unhappy with any document that gave the people rights in their government. She soon organized…

The saying “All roads lead to Rome” has a subtext, which is that, among other technological innovations, the Romans built actual roads that wheeled vehicles could travel on. Everywhere else transport was pack animals on narrow trails. Like the caravans of Silk Road fame. The Romans could move far more stuff around on their roads than their neighbors could. It made them quicker on their feet than their roadless opponents. You could call their roads a technological edge. Let’s recap a myth. A lot of myths, it has been later discovered, have grown up around events that at some point scientists discover actually happened. Troy, for instance. Homer’s story was described as “mythic” before the ruins of the city were located in far western Anatolia (anciently called Ionia) and excavated…

The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation and the Royal Canadian Mint have unveiled a deeply symbolic keepsake that acknowledges the truths behind the residential school experience on First Nations, Inuit and Métis children and their families, and supports our commitment to fostering reconciliation. Honoring the survivors and children who never returned, the Truth and Reconciliation Keepsake helps educate Canadians about the intergenerational impacts of Residential, Day and Boarding schools. It invites reflection and conversation about the impacts of those schools, the conditions that created them, and how people living in Canada can turn reflection into acts of reconciliation. “September and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation is a moment for the country to pause, reflect, and remember the children who never came home from residential school and those…