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...

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 ...

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,...

In what is turning out to be an annual event, MMTC Pamp, under licence from the Royal Mint, has issued the latest addition to the popular Indian sovereign series. Minting of the 2015 issue appears to ...

There’s a lot of confusion around the obverse varieties of the Jubilee head sovereign. Everyone from the coin dealers, collectors, authors, and even PCGS have made attribution errors in their public...

It’s not every day that I get to attend an international coin event, so when I heard about a small coin show in Nagoya, Japan while holidaying in Tokyo last January, I couldn’t stop myself from ho...

It’s not the first time that someone has wondered what stories could be told if only coins could talk. An ancient gold aureus might have once belonged to Julius Caesar; or perhaps it was that hammer...

It’s been two years since I’ve been to Perth, but I haven’t forgotten how much I had enjoyed the trip there the first time, so when the dates for the ANDA Coin Show were set, I booked my flights...

Proof coins with highly reflective, mirror-like fields can be described as either cameo (abbreviated to “CAM” on the PCGS certificate) or deep cameo (abbreviated to “DCAM”). CAM and DCAM refer...

Here is a selection of images from the 2014 Coinex Coin Show, which was held in London on the 26th and 27th of September 2014. Coinex Coin Show. The main entrance hall to the venue, the Millennium Hot...

Here’s a selection of images from the 2014 Sydney ANDA Coin Show, which was held on Friday and Saturday the 24th and 25th of October. Sydney ANDA ShowThe main aisle of the show. The Royal Australia ...