Coins
Since ancient times, rulers and governments have produced coins to establish a standardised form of exchange for their citizens. With these items often embodying the history of their age, antique coins remains a highly collectable field.
Coins often appear in mixed auctions but there are also specialist auction houses operating in this field.
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Heads you win a final proof coin set bearing Queen Victoria’s portrait
01 May 2023The final proof coin set bearing Queen Victoria’s portrait was issued by the Royal Mint in two sets in 1893.
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Men found guilty of selling Anglo Saxon coins from Herefordshire Hoard
28 April 2023In the latest of a series of court cases, two men have been found guilty of trying to sell rare Anglo-Saxon coins.
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Roma owner arrested in coin false provenance probe
20 March 2023Richard Beale, the owner and managing director of London coin auction house Roma Numismatics, has been arrested in New York in connection with the sale of a record-breaking classical coin.
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Second-heaviest coin in classical numismatics sells at Berlin auction
20 March 2023One would hardly call a 13in x 2ft 1in (34 x 63cm) copper block, weighing more than 32 pounds (14.6kg), a convenient method of payment, but in the mid-17th century such plates were indeed issued in Sweden under King Charles X Gustav.
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Spink tops coins and medals table
13 February 2023The record business enjoyed by London’s coin auction houses during Covid lockdowns largely continued last year.
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The Gothic Crown of 1853
13 February 2023Produced six years after the much more common 1847 dated Gothic Crown of which 8000 were made, the 1853 Gothic Crown was struck only in a very limited number.
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Coin synonymous with the Age of Discovery
13 February 2023Struck c.1500 in Lisbon from Guinean gold provided by the explorations of Vasco da Gama, the 10 cruzados piece or Portugués do ouro of Manuel I (1495-1521) is a coin synonymous with the Age of Discovery.
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Wife of megalomaniac emperor
13 February 2023To one side of this gold aureus struck in Rome in 180-83 is a sensually draped portrait of the goddess Venus.
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Coins and medals: Upwards and onwards as market rises with inflation
13 February 2023The unexpected but very welcome increase in demand that the market experienced amid Covid lockdowns continued in 2022 as restrictions eased – and auction houses are optimistic about another strong performance this year
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Henry III penny produced for just a year
13 February 2023Henry III (1216-72) issued his ‘gold penny’ for probably less than a year from August 16, 1357.
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Eadberht rarity sold at Timeline Auctions
13 February 2023The corpus of Anglo-Saxon coins lists only 20 coins for the Kentish king Eadberht.
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Design of the Zodiac
13 February 2023Harmers’ (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).
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Eagle flies in to London saleroom
13 February 2023An unusual visitor to UK shores last year was this gold ‘Liberty head’ quarter eagle (two and a half dollars) from 1830.
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Roman medallion masterpiece claims imperial coin record
23 January 2023A spectacular Roman gold medallion took a record price at the latest New York International Numismatic Convention (NYINC).
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Final view of Victoria in the coins realm
05 December 2022The final proof coin set bearing Queen Victoria’s portrait was issued by the Royal Mint in 1893.
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Coins discovered under kitchen floor in Yorkshire home sell for over £600,000 at auction
15 October 2022A group of coins found under the floor of an 18th century house in Yorkshire have sold at Spink.
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Coins: BNTA's London showpiece event Coinex returns
12 September 2022Coinex, the most important event on the British calender for many serious coin collectors, opens at the Biltmore Hotel in Mayfair on September 23-24.
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Alexander’s distater – the spoils of conquest
12 September 2022Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian Achaemenid empire delivered into his hands a vast wealth.
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Gold from buttons
12 September 2022The 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.
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A hoard under boards emerges at Spink
12 September 2022The 264 English gold coins in the so-called Ellerby Hoard, uncovered by a Yorkshire family while re-laying a floor in an 18th century home, range from the reign of James I to George I.
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