Why is it that for centuries – or rather thousands of years – the head has served as the motif for the side of a coin? And why has this changed in the last 200 years? This chapter of the series ‘Human Faces’ looks at why Julian was nicknamed ‘The Apostate’.
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The Museum of Art and History in Neuchâtel (CH) asks for your attention. In February 2014 a golden Double pistole 1694 disappeared from the museum. It could appear on the market.
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Whitman Publishing has recently published an updated and revised third edition of “Carson City Morgan Dollars”, by Adam Crum, Selby Ungar, and Jeff Oxman.
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Helmut Rizzolli presents three Celtic gold coins which were found in Tyrol in the 19th century. A hundred years ago, a museum used them to pay off their heating bills, now they have reappeared on the collector’s market and can finally be analysed and interpreted.
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