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Prestigious European Coin Auction Looks to U.S. Experts for Success
Nov 20 at 11:11pm
An unprecedented collaboration between a European coin seller and a U.S. certification company is the latest evidence that the international collectible coin market is booming. Numismatica Genevensis SA (NGSA), one of the leading European rare coin auction houses has contracted Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) to certify approximately 300 of the 1,500 pieces, including many ancient coins, being offered in its December 2-3 auction in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Ancient Chinese coins on display at Eretz Israel Museum - Jerusalem Post
Nov 17 at 2:02pm
Some 3,000 years ago, the Shang Dynasty (1700-1027 BCE) in China was using cowries as money. Toward the end of that era, the first coins appeared, except that they weren’t the round coins we’re familiar with. Those only made their appearance around the fourth century BCE. No, those first Chinese coins looked like spades and knives and made their appearance around the eighth century BCE.
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Silver pennies found in Flintshire field are treasure, finder told - Evening Leader
Nov 11 at 2:02pm
A Flintshire history enthusiast, who uncovered three 700-year-old coins, is delighted after having his findings officially declared treasure. Peter Barker Jones, of Holywell, was exploring a field owned by his friend in July 2006, when he came across a silver coin on the surface of the ground.
Mr Jones, who says he has always been interested in local history and archaeology, was searching for old flint tools, where he believes there was the site of a Neolithic camp, when he happened across the object.
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Labourers unearth gold coins in Maharashtra school - Calcutta News.Net
Nov 10 at 2:02pm
Labourers digging at a school campus in Maharashtra stumbled upon a minor treasure — a cache of 847 gold coins of an unknown period, bearing inscriptions in Greek and Urdu, and worth roughly Rs.4.2 million, the police said Saturday. The labourers tried to keep secret their find but were apprehended.
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On Second Thought - Ancient Coin Collecting
Nov 10 at 2:02pm
After reading the latest Elkins and Barford blog posts, I was inclined to consider the source and ignore them. But, having slept on it, I have to ask myself WHY? Why should I have spent more than 40 years of my life learning about ancient coins, and the cultures that produced them, just to have some star-gazer with a fixation on academic supremacy characterize me personally as a rank amateur with nothing but $$$ for a motivation?
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NGC Announces New Services and Division for Ancient Coins
Nov 7 at 8:08pm
Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) announced on Wednesday the creation of a new division and a series of services for attributing and grading ancient coins that will kick-off on January 1, 2009.
David Vagi, author of Coinage and History of the Roman Empire, will lead the division entitled NGC Ancients, which NGC says will certify “most coins struck in the Western World through circa A.D. 500, as well as coins of the Byzantine Empire.”
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“Brand New” Ancient Roman Gold Coins in Heritage January 2009 NYINC Auction
Oct 24 at 10:10pm
A trio of exceptional coins from ancient Rome is being offered in Heritage Auction Galleries’ Signature® Auction of Ancient & World Coins to be held at the New York International Numismatic Convention, in New York City on January 4-5, 2009. The Heritage auction and the Convention will be held at the Waldorf-Astoria. Details can be found on the Heritage website, HA.com, where the auction will be posted in early December for inspection and bidding.
“Among the many magnificent ancient coins in the NYINC auction,” noted Cristiano Bierrenbach, Heritage’s Director of International Sales, “are a pair of coins graded as “Fleur de Coin” – a French phrase meaning ‘absolutely perfect in every way.’ This denotes a coin that is not only technically uncirculated, but appears as fresh as the day it was minted.
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Novgorod Archeologists Find 12th Century Hoard - Russia-InfoCentre
Oct 22 at 8:08pm
In the course of excavations in the historical centre of Veliki Novgorod, near the Monastery of the Dime archeologists have found hidden treasure of 22 European silver coins called denarii. The thin, scale-like dinarii about one centimeter in diameter had been hidden under the base of a wooden utility structure, which experts have dated back to the early 12th century.
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Sour Grapes - Ancient Coin Collecting
Oct 15 at 7:07pm
My previous blog post heralded the appointment of Brent R. Benjamin to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC) as a positive step in fulfilling the intent of the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act. Specifically, that is to provide a balanced perspective when evaluating requests from other nations for the imposition of import restrictions on cultural property. The eleven presidential appointments to CPAC come from diverse segments of society that are mandated by law—so that the work of the committee will reflect the views and interests of society, not just of a favored special interest.
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CPAC Appointment is Positive News - Ancient Coin Collecting
Oct 1 at 11:11pm
The latest selection by President Bush to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee already has some in the archaeological community grumbling as they see Brent Benjamin’s appointment as “bad news”. That is hardly unexpected I suppose, considering that archaeologists have in effect had a lock on at least one of the museum community seats on the committee for some time.
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New Gold Coin Type Discovered in Kent - NumisMaster
Sep 17 at 11:11pm
A previously unpublished gold quarter stater was unearthed in July by a metal detectorist in east Kent in England, according to Chris Rudd of Celtic Coins.
The coin was struck 2,000 years ago by a king of the Cantiaci tribe, whose name means “people of the corner land,” Rudd said.
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An ancient coin that tells a brutal story of the death of Julius Caesar - Coins & Stamps
Sep 1 at 1:01pm
People enjoy the designs on the 50 state quarters and other coins commemorating events and places. But in ancient times, the importance of what was depicted on coins spoke volumes.
When it comes to holding history in your hands, nothing compares with coins from former empires. Everyone from benevolent rulers to dictators memorialized themselves or key exploits on coins of the realm.
Struck from copper, bronze, silver, gold or electrum (an alloy of gold and silver), the peoples of the ancient civilizations revered them for their value and the information they relayed.
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Ancient Coin Collectors Guild Benefit Auction Nets $45.8K - Coin News
Aug 21 at 11:11pm
The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild (ACCG) reports a successful benefit auction with sales of donated ancient coins, related books, and antiquity lots netting $45,811.
The online auction was held in August and hosted on the Vauction site to raise funds for ACCG — a non-profit organization.
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J’lem Dig turns up gold coins from end of Second Temple period - HAARETZ.com
Aug 5 at 10:10pm
In ancient times, the inhabitants of the Land of Israel and its environs would raise pigeons in underground caves. Called “columbariums,” the caves had small niches, in which the birds laid their eggs. Over the years many columbariums have been unearthed at ancient sites around the country, particularly at those containing finds from the Second Temple period. A few days ago, archaeologists made a most surprising find at the bottom of such a columbarium, at a site at Kibbutz Ramat Rachel near Jerusalem - a hoard of coins from the time of the destruction of the Second Temple (70 C.E.).
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Afghanistan Treasure of Ancient Coins on Display in U.S. - NumisMaster
Jun 25 at 3:03pm
Ancient coins are featured at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., in a joint exhibition with the National Geographic Society and the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul. It will be open for viewing until Sept. 7.
The exhibition includes ancient coins found in the region. Many of the treasures were rediscovered buried in the Central Bank located in the Presidential Palace after being out of sight since 1979 when the Soviet invasion occurred. The treasures escaped the later onslaught of the Taliban, who ruthlessly destroyed many works of art that portrayed deities
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Gold coins of Emperor Valens found in Egypt - World News Network
May 29 at 10:10pm
Egypt’s massive storage of artifacts still buried underneath of a pellicle of sand and soil is daily investigated by archaeologists. Indefatigable researches are conducted to extract history from beneath, to find clues on a nation’s past and to restore World history. And thanks to its immense archaeological materials, scientists regularly unearth new items who change more or less our understanding of this great ancient civilization.
The Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities announced an interesting discovery. Gold coins forged by Roman Emperor Vales were unearthed at the astonishment of archaeologists; these findings represent the first of this kind in the Land of the Pyramids. The two coins were found during excavations in the west part of St. Catherine’s monastery in Sinai…
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Ancient coin found near Oslo - Aftenposten
May 29 at 12:12pm
An Islamic coin from 805 AD, found on the Hurum peninsula just west of Oslo, is causing a stir among Norwegian archaeologists. The silver dirhem, minted in Iran, is one of the earliest examples of coins to turn up in the Nordic countries.
Several other hordes in the area have contained similar coins, but none date back as far as this. The previous finds have been 100-150 years younger.
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