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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George III ultra cameo coin comes to Harmers
06 September 2021Although an auction house since 1918, stamps specialist Harmers is a relative newcomer to the London numismatic sales.
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Stanley Gibbons hit by pandemic but hopeful for improved trading in revamped shop
11 August 2021Stamp and coins dealership Stanley Gibbons reported its full year results highlighting the impact the pandemic had on sales.
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Why it’s very nice to meet you
12 July 2021Dealers and auctioneers breathe sighs of relief as London Coin Fair returns as physical event. Report by Rachel Fellman.
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Buy a share in the world’s most expensive stamp
14 June 2021Stanley Gibbons, the buyer of the world’s most expensive stamp at Sotheby’s New York last week, said it plans to “democratise” its ownership by inviting the public to buy shares in it.
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Five pounds now valued at €700,000 plus
17 May 2021Among the coins being offered for sale by the specialist numismatic auction firm MDC Monaco on June 12 is this exceptionally rare Australian gold five pounds coin.
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Coin auction houses end four-year joint venture
12 April 2021London coin specialists Baldwin’s and St James’ Auctions have ended their tie-up after four years.
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$1.9m record for British coin set in Dallas
05 April 2021The record for a British coin has been broken again with the sale at Heritage Auctions in Dallas of an Edward VIII proof pattern £5 for $1.9m (£1.39m).
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Lorry driver sentenced after Bulgarian coins and antiquities seized at Dover
24 March 2021A Bulgarian man has been jailed for two years after antiquities estimated to be worth more than £76,000 were found in his lorry by Border Force in Dover, Kent.
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Designer Stuart Weitzman’s treasures at Sotheby’s could set records for any coin and stamp
16 March 2021Sotheby’s is staging a three-lot sale of exceptional items from the collection of luxury shoe designer Stuart Weitzman this summer.
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‘Fake’ coin proves to be the €210,000 real deal
01 March 2021Gold coin rejected at first but now identified as once owned by renowned Russian collector
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Coins and medals ‘up 15-20%’ during £53m year for London’s salerooms
15 February 2021Despite the near absence of face-to-face trading, 2020 was a record year for London’s coins and medals auction houses with combined total sales just shy of £53m.
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Twelfth century coin dug up by metal detectorist sells at £14,000
15 February 2021This coin, from the period known as ‘The Anarchy’, was discovered by a metal detectorist in a Yorkshire field in March.
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Coins & medals: Virtual trade leads to 'renaissance' in lockdown
15 February 2021In the absence of face-to-face contact, 2020 was a difficult year for the numismatics market as a whole... but the auction business found a way to thrive.
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British token record set at Dix Noonan Webb
15 February 2021A record for a British token was set at Dix Noonan Webb on May 26 when this copper coin – the only specimen known in commerce – took £7000 (estimate £400-500).
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Detecting an Iron Age record
15 February 2021Showing that not all the best UK numismatic action takes place in London, the first known gold coin of Caratacus – unearthed by a metal detectorist a year earlier in a Berkshire field – sold at auction for a record £71,000 an auction in Norwich.
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Welcoming the Ides of March
15 February 2021Roma Numismatics set a new record for a classical coin when a Brutus Eid Mar-type gold aureus, struck shortly after the murder of Julius Caesar, took £2.7m in October.
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Coin from the reign of Catuvellauni leader Agr sold at Timeline
15 February 2021The numismatic department of TimeLine is a small but important part of the auction house’s activities in the related disciplines of antiquities and medieval works of art.
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Harmers cashes in on the Regency golden age
15 February 2021The 1826 £5 piece was the highest denomination in the coinage of the George IV and was not issued for general circulation. The epitome of Regency design, the reverse features the royal shield while the obverse designed by William Wyon features the bare head portrait.
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Monarchs conjoined on a rare coin
15 February 2021This William and Mary Five Guineas piece from 1693 features conjoined busts of joint monarchs.
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Landmark Islamic gold dinar sold at Morton & Eden
15 February 2021After striking a few coins in both gold and silver which were still closely related to Byzantine and Sasanian prototypes, ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ibn al-Hakam, the fifth Umayyad caliph, ruling from 685-705AD (65-86H), made a clean break with the pre-Islamic past and introduced a completely new gold coinage in 77H.
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