Coin

To one side of this gold aureus struck in Rome in 180-83 is a sensually draped portrait of the goddess Venus.

Henry III (1216-72) issued his ‘gold penny’ for probably less than a year from August 16, 1357.

The corpus of Anglo-Saxon coins lists only 20 coins for the Kentish king Eadberht.

Harmers’ (20% buyer’s premium) third numismatic auction held on September 26 was topped by this Indian rarity, a Gold Mohur issued under the Mughal emperor Nur al-Din Muhammad Jahangir (1605-27).

An unusual visitor to UK shores last year was this gold ‘Liberty head’ quarter eagle (two and a half dollars) from 1830.

A spectacular Roman gold medallion took a record price at the latest New York International Numismatic Convention (NYINC).

Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian Achaemenid empire delivered into his hands a vast wealth.

The Premier Sale held by St James’s Auctions on September 22 includes this gold half guinea token with a ‘phoenix from the flames’ motif made for Wilson and Younge of Sheffield in 1812.

Bonhams has closed its coin and medals department in London and specialist John Millensted will now work as a consultant to the firm.

The most cherished coin from the reign of Victoria proved popular at a German saleroom

A newly discovered Henry III ‘gold penny’, one of the most fabled coins in all of British numismatics, has sold for £540,000 (plus 20% buyer’s premium).

Rare Japanese Meiji gold coin emerges at auction in West Sussex

The finest-known example of a New England shilling sold for £220,000 at Morton & Eden in London on November 26 (plus 20% buyer’s premium).

A single-owner collection of 33 sovereigns from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I generated a white-glove result at London auction house Dix Noonan Webb (24% buyer’s premium).

A group of 52 Tudor, Stuart and Commonwealth England hammered gold coins rediscovered after 60 years shine at auction.

Siege money or ‘money of necessity’ was minted in Newark in 1646 during the town’s third siege and the last year of the First English Civil War.