Latest News Articles by Richard Falkiner
At face value: coins and medals sales recover after 2017 dip
18 February 2019It is a quarter of a century since ATG’s first overview of London’s numismatic auction market. Here we review the heads and the tails of 2018.
Heads and tails of London’s coin market
12 February 2018Almost a quarter of a century since ATG’s first overview of the numismatic market, ATG reviews the comings and goings of 2017
London numismatic highlights of 2017 - from a 1839 Una and the Lion five pound coin to the Smart collection of banknotes
12 February 2018A coin that a set a record for a British five pound piece features among the hammer highlights for coins and banknotes sold across the year at auction.
Huge hoard may hold key to early English coinage
12 January 2015The discovery of Anglo-Saxon coins near Aylesbury in December is the largest find of its type in 175 years.
Tudor and Stuart history told through 600 medals
28 August 2014The Christopher Foley collection of British commemorative medals will be sold at Salisbury auctioneers Woolley & Wallis on October 16. The sale is the most comprehensive of its type seen for a century or more.
Gold dinar sets new high at £3.1m
11 April 2011THE London Islamic sales week got of to a ‘magic carpet’ start when Morton and Eden held an 81-lot sale devoted to the rarest Islamic coins.
New law and new buyers boost New York coin results
07 February 2011WITH the coin world descending on the Big Apple for the New York International Numismatic Convention, once again the new year started with a bang in this sector.
Landmark Renaissance medals set for sale in December
09 November 2009ON December 9, Morton and Eden are to offer what is possibly the most important collection of Renaissance medals to come onto the market in decades.