Coin Collector

Coin Collector gives you all the information, news, expert advice, market insight and inspiration you need to build your coin collection and get the most from your hobby. Every issue features in-depth collecting guides giving you the lowdown on coins from a wide range of periods and location, from Viking and Roman coins to the latest coins issued by mints around the world. Each issue includes the unique and popular ‘British Numismatist’ section, bringing you the latest discoveries, exhibitions, theories and literature from the academic world of numismatics. Written by authors, curators and learned experts, the pages provide an academic yet still accessible take on the hobby.

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DAVID BOWIE COIN SENT INTO SPACE

COIN SOLD FOR 5 CENTS GOES ON TO FETCH $43,000

NGC CERTIFIES ENORMOUS GOLD COINS CELEBRATING THE YEAR OF THE RAT

TOKEN REALISES $40,800 IN PARTRICK SALE

IN BRIEF

STACK’S BOWERS ACQUIRE ‘COINS IN MOTION’ TECHNOLOGY

CHINA ISSUE NEW WINTER OLYMPICS COINS

IN BRIEF

RECORD-BREAKING PRICE FOR GOLD STATER

NEW SOUTH AFRICAN R5 COIN FEATURES FAVOURITE COINS

CHANGE CHECKER AWARD WINNERS REVEALED!

BARBER DIME FETCHES OVER $1 MILLION

COINS DEDICATED TO HENRY VIII’S WIVES DISCOVERED IN GARDEN

AUCTION UPDATE

LATEST INTERNET AUCTIONS • Your quick reference guide to recent online sales, in association with delcampe.net

THE WORLD’S FAIR OF MONEY…THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN • Numismatic events around the world have had to be cancelled, postponed, or moved online, but as US coins expert Jeff Garrett explains the coin market is proving to be very resilient, and the future could be brighter than ever

USA UPDATE

EURO PARTY… POSTPONED • There were few celebrations or reasons to be cheerful in 2020, but numismatists on the Continent will have given a nod to the eighteenth birthday of Europe’s single currency, as Sebastian Wieschowski explains

THE ROYAL MINT IN PICTURES • The Royal Mint Museum has a collection of over 10,000 photographs and negatives, the earliest of which date back to the 1860s. They capture the Mint at work, documenting processes and equipment, as well as designs for coins and medals. And, as Dr Kevin Clancy, Director The Royal Mint Museum, explains, the images also reveal the Mint as a community, a living record of the people who have made the nation’s money over this period of time

GOLDEN GREATS • In the first of a new series of articles focussing on the gold coins of Europe, coin writer Sebastian Wieschowski, provides an introduction to these desirable and historically intriguing pieces, beginning with a relic from Belgium’s dark colonial past

COINS & CURRENCY UNDER THE Commonwealth of England • Dr Murray Andrews of the University of Worcester provides a guide to the coins used during the short-lived Commonwealth of England, when the nation existed without a monarchy following the Second English Civil War and the trial and execution of Charles I

BOB LONG’S BRAVERY • One of the great pleasures of medal collecting is the joy of the unexpected, writes Will Bennett of the Orders & Medals Research Society, as he tells the tale of Bob Long and his life saving medal

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SWEDISH PLATE MONEY • Dr Richard Kelleher, of the Department of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, looks at an extraordinary example of real coined money which grew to a remarkable size and prompted the printing of Europe’s first paper money

NUMISMATICS IN LOCKDOWN • In this focus provided by the Money & Medals Network, based at The British Museum, we look at some of the challenges faced by numismatists during the...