Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2023 i World Coin News

During the four weeks since our last installment roughly 1,500 new master records, each describing a single commemorative or circulating coin, have been added to NumisMaster. These new types were spread out over 35 countries and included base metal circulation types, as well as various commemorative and bullion coins struck in silver, gold and platinum. Some of the countries with the most additions include: Ghana, with over 180 new types, many of which you might already be seeing for sale on eBay, Belarus, with over 120 new types, Canada with over 60 new circulation and commemorative coins available on the RCM website right now, Djibouti with over 40 new commemoratives, Gabon and Gambia, with a combined total of over 230 new coins and France with 35 additions covering the year…

World War II ended, and everyone was exhausted. The imperial powers were broke. Who were those countries? Britain and France mostly, with extensive holdings in Africa and Asia, Netherlands in the Caribbean and South America and Indonesia, Portugal in Africa mostly. Spain had a few foreign bits left. The Americans, of course, with their Philippines. They weren’t broke, but Britain and France sure were. Holding those colonies was making less sense by the day, financially speaking. Plus, pretty much everywhere in the colonies, locals were calling for independence. Sometimes they engaged in various kinds of violence, including organized armed conflict, which is generally labelled “war.” Maybe the imperial power could bring in troops and impose order in this or that colony, but they couldn’t do it everywhere; there weren’t enough…

The planning committees and hosts of the 4th International Convention of Historians and Numismatists—Santo Domingo MMXXIII—have announced that registration is now open for the upcoming event, set to take place June 28 through July 2, 2023, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. A registration link is available on the congress website, https://santodomingo2023.com. Largely focused on Latin American and Spanish Colonial currencies, minting houses, history, and art, the event is fourth in a series of biennial International Conventions of Historians and Numismatists (ICHN) that launched with Potosi 2016, and was followed by Arequipa 2018, and Cartagena MMXXI. Now widely recognized as the most representative and prestigious numismatic event in Latin America, ICHN brings together many of today’s premier researchers, professionals, and numismatic associations and companies from more than 25 countries on three…

There is increasing pressure on museums, antiquity and coin dealers, and collectors to be able to prove the provenance of their ancient coins to the satisfaction of foreign countries that otherwise will claim these objects as cultural patrimony. Should coins and other antiquities be declared cultural patrimony these objects might be targeted to be repatriated due to when or how the objects were exported. On March 22 one of three known fabled Roman Eid Mar aureii of Brutus was seized and turned over to the government of Greece, allegedly having been illegally exported and due to its published provenance having been allegedly faked. On February 2 Manhattan (New York City) District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. announced the repatriation of 14 antiquities collectively valued at nearly $2.5 million to Italy.…

“It was just like in the good old days when people flocked to coin shows in the 1970s,” that is how Ernst Neumann, long-term coin dealer and NUMISMATA exhibitor, described the 53rd NUMISMATA, which attracted about 3,500 visitors to Munich from March 4-5, 2023. Everyone who finally entered the hall was mesmerized by the atmosphere. The dealers’ tables were crowded, and not just during the first few hours but well into the afternoon. NUMISMATA is known for being a coin fair geared to the needs of classical collectors. Although a few modern mints have a booth there, the focus is on European auction houses and coin dealers. Tables and booths were completely sold out long before the event. Those who were fortunate enough to register in time could enjoy both…

Although we sometimes tend to think of Russia as something different from other European countries in the 18th century, Empress Catherine II had the same problem faced by the other rulers: there was never enough money to run the State. One method in 1769 that meant to solve the endless fiscal problems was to issue assignats (paper money). As with all such actions, however, the value of the assignats, in terms of gold and silver, began to erode and by the 1780s there was a virtual paper-money régime in place throughout the country. Once the paper currency was a fact of public life, intense discussions were held at the highest levels in order to provide the proper metallic backing for the assignats. One odd suggestion of 1769 which quickly gained…

One of the elite coins from the prestigious Hunt Collection, a coin considered the most historically important of all ancient coins, will find a new home when it is sold in Heritage Auctions’ CSNS World Coins Platinum and Signature® Auction May 3-5. The Marcus Junius Brutus, Assassin of Caesar and Imperator (44-42 B.C.), with L. Plaetorius Cestianus, as Magistrate. AR denarius (19mm, 3.72 gm, 12h). NGC XF 5/5 - 4/5, Fine Style (estimate: $450,000+) is the only certified example ever to come to auction that has received a Fine Style designation from NGC. “The significance of this coin is impossible to overstate,” says Cris Bierrenbach, Executive Vice President of International Numismatics at Heritage Auctions. “It is the only Roman coin to mention a specific date and the only Roman coin…