I was reading a great coin article by Philip McLoughlin in the Coin News magazine this month about some of George Kruger-Gray’s alternative designs for Australia’s new coinage in 1938. If you have...

The mint made 72 million small head 2004 twenty cent pieces in 2004, but just 400,000 examples of the large head version. For this reason, many collectors conclude that the small head is far more comm...

Move over Canberra florin, the Gothic Crown must be the world's most beautiful coin. Issued in 1847 and 1853, both dates are popular with collectors. There are several different varieties of the 1847,...

The British Indian mohurs of the 1830s and 1840s bore a masculine rendition of a stalking lion in front of a palm tree. It's a beautiful design that was later used on the logo of the Reserve Bank of I...

The Perth Coin and Stamp coin was held on 7th to 9th July at the South Perth Community Centre. Although I wasn’t able to attend personally, collector Jenny Ensbey was able to provide some live shots...

Coin collectors from Hong Kong were spoiled for choice in April with two coin shows in one weekend, held in adjoining hotels, about two hundred metres apart. While a single show would have been enough...

The 2017 Numismata München was held in Bavaria on the 4th and 5th March 2017. Numismata is one of the oldest coin shows in Germany, and is held all across the country and parts of Austria at various ...

They've taken some time to track down, but the 2016 "I" mintmark sovereigns are here. These were minted in Delhi on behalf of the Royal Mint, London. They are from the first series of sovereigns minte...

Not having been to South Korea before, I took the opportunity to visit some of the coin shops in the area we were staying. As it turns out, there was an entire underground shopping area dedicated to c...

The Adelaide Coin Show was held on the 3rd and 4th of December in the Drill Hall just outside Adelaide CBD. For those who happened to have missed out, I’ve taken a few photos of the weekend’s proc...

It’s been a while since I’ve done an ANDA Money Expo, so it was with some excitement that I packed my bags and made my way across town to the Sydney Town Hall. It took about an hour to set up, but...

The ANA World’s Fair of Money was held at the Anaheim Convention Center over five days between the 9th and 13th August 2016 and it coincided with the 125th anniversary of the formation of the ANA fo...

Last month, PCGS launched a series of educational videos to help collectors learn how PCGS assesses coins. It’s an eight-part series, with each video being about five or six minutes long. I’ve onl...

The show was held in the Crystal Ballroom in the Holiday Inn, Kowloon, from April 8th to the 10th, 2016. Spanning the entire length of the large carpeted room, as well as a filling the entire anteroom...

Two weeks ago, I had the honour of attending the Royal Australian Mint’s 50th anniversary celebrations of decimal currency. It was a big day, with exhibits, shows, cheap food, costumed mascots, and ...

I don’t often go to Perth, but when I do, it’s the weekend of the Perth ANDA Coin Show. This year has seen a new spin on this popular coin show, with new activities for the kiddies, no entrance fe...

In May 2015, a 1920-S sovereign sold at auction for £480,000 (or about AU$940,000 at the then exchange rate). It is finest of the three or four known examples, struck in specimen condition, and carri...

It’s been about nine years since I first saw a cabinet full of Australian PCGS-graded coins at a local coin show. The year was 2007, and my first thought was that ACGS (Australia’s professional co...

I was in London last week for the Coinex Coin Show 2015. If you missed it, here are some snaps I took of the two-day event. The venue: The Millennium Hotel, Mayfair, London. The Millennium Hotel has s...

It was another good Petersham Coin Show last Sunday 30th August 2015. Although train services were suspended for the day, a good number of collectors managed to come in and drop by. If you were there,...