Please note that the Internet Explorer (IE) desktop application ended support on June 2022. To improve your experience and get an optimal website display, we recommend you to upgrade to Microsoft Edge browser.
  1. Home
  3. News

News

The Logbook

35 articles in the category Collection Themes
Treizains de mariage and other love tokens
Article
Article

Treizains de mariage and other love tokens

Medals are often commemorative, and is there any event in life more worth commemorating than a wedding? However, alongside this timeless classic there is also a more intimate, more religious, and less well-known tradition known in French as the treiza(...)
Reading time: 3'23"
Read
Polymer banknotes
Article
Article

Polymer banknotes

The history of banknotes stretches back a very long time, although one might not think so at first, and the material used to make them has never stopped evolving over the centuries  Counterfeiting is not plain sailing Banknotes were originally made of(...)
Reading time: 5'13"
Read
Coin weights
Article
Article

Coin weights

Prior to the 20th century (and even later depending on the country), the weight (or rather the mass to be more precise) of a coin reigned supreme. Furthermore, the face value of the coin often referred to the corresponding weight. For example, the pou(...)
Reading time: 5'4"
Read
Top 11 animals featured on ancient coins
Article
Article

Top 11 animals featured on ancient coins

Emblems, myths, symbols… There’s no doubt about it: be they gods or myths, emblems or parables, terrifying or powerful, fighting or posing, immobile or in motion, animals are everywhere to be found on ancient coins. Allow us to present our non-exhaust(...)
Reading time: 8'60"
Read
The french revolution, the assignats, and the counterfeiters
Article
Article

The french revolution, the assignats, and the counterfeiters

With this concept, each purchase of an assignat signifies an advance for the State’s coffers. The Caisse de l’Extraordinaire issues the assignats and is responsible for collecting the sums from the sale of the national goods; the Caisse d’Escompte is (...)
Reading time: 13'0"
Read
"Just one certainty is enough for the one who is looking."
Albert Camus

Blog articles for numismatists and collectors. News, stories, History and inspirational series.