Xavier Rogé (Numista)

People's Republic of Romania, 50 bani, 1955
Cupronickel, 4.5 g, 25 mm
N# 9023

Heavily worn coins have a charm of their own.

I can only imagine how many years this one spent jingling in the pockets of Romanian workers.

Siam, Rama IV Mongkut, silver.
7 coins from song pai (¹⁄₁₆ bath) to tamlung (4 bath).
From the upcoming MDC Auction 16.
N#43897, N#94963, N#108373

Coins come in all kinds of shapes and techniques.

Here are some bullet coins from Siam (Thailand): small silver bullets, bended into an almost ball shape and stamped. This kind of coins was used from the 13th century up until 1904.

Interesting discussion in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the French Numismatic Society: are the wreaths on the coins of the Achaean League olive or laurel leaves? The difference matters when describing coins accurately!

Bhutan, 10 Chhertum, 1979
Bronze, 3.6 g, 20.4 mm
N#6436

The right-turning white conch shell 🐚is one of the Eight Auspicious Signs in Buddhism, the state religion of Bhutan 🇧🇹, where this 10 Chhertum coin circulated.

Thank you CoinsWeekly for sharing the word about the new literature section on Numista!

We are proud of this new collaborative database of numismatic books, journals and articles, intended to promote and facilitate access to printed numismatic knowledge.

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Register here to get the Zoom link: numismatic-conference.org. It's free, and you are guaranteed to have a good time and learn some things.

Join us for the 3rd session of the INAC conference on Sunday (March 30th).

The programme includes travelling Dutch coins, mints of the Madras presidency, coins of the Sogdian principality of Abgar, and archeological finds of Samarqand.

We updated the API for collection management: you can now see, add and modify these new fields through the API.

San Marino, 1000 Lire, 2000
Copper-nickel and aluminium bronze, 8.8 g, 27 mm
N#9915

A nice bimetallic coin from San Marino, showing a swallow flying over the Earth, escaping barbed wire, hoping for world peace 🕊️

Coming soon :)

France, plaquette, 1900
Silvered bronze, 57 g, 60 × 42 mm
N#461249

A winged Victory is holding laurel branches over the site of the Universal Exhibition 1900 in Paris.

The plaquette was awarded to 10,000 laureates of the Games of the II Olympiad, which were held together with the Exhibition.

With this update, we hope it’s easier than ever to keep every item of your collection fully documented.

- Storage location (no more guessing where you stored that piece!)
- Pictures and PDFs (a handy way to keep invoices)
- Your own ID number for each item
- Private and public comments
- Quantity
- Adjectival grade
- Exchange status

Here’s everything you can log:
- Acquisition place, date, and price
- Third-party grading (service, grade, designation, CAC sticker, cert number — we’ll build the verification link!)
- Size, weight, axis (especially for ancient coins)

Numista’s collection management just got better! Now you can now add third-party grading info, acquisition details, and measurements to every coin or banknote in your collection.

Many countries continue having bimetallic coins, so I guess it's worth it. I believe it's also a way to make counterfeits more difficult.

🪙Uruguay, 10 Pesos Uruguayos, 2011
Brass plated steel and nickel plated steel, 28 mm, 10.5 g
N#22257

Animals make wonderful coin designs! Check out this Uruguayan 10 pesos bimetallic coin featuring a graceful puma (Puma concolor) strolling in front of a rising sun.

Finally announced, the Online Coinage of Ostrogothic Italy: numismatics.org/coi/, a collaboration between IKMK Berlin (prepared the data) and the ANS (hosting). There are 720 coins linked to 120 types, excellent photographic coverage, mostly from Berlin and the BM #classicsbluesky

🪙Aegina, Stater, ND (520 BC - 480 BC)
Silver, 25 mm, 12 g
N#96163

Silver turtles like this one were widely used in trade during the 6th and 5th centuries BC.

The sea-turtle design is distinctive of the island of Aegina, located off the northeastern coast of the Peloponnese.

🎶 Got the blues for buried treasure? 🏺✨

Our next Coin Talk is with Dr. Eleanor Ghey! 🎉
Coin Hoards in Britain will be on the 19th of March at 12:30 GMT.

🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4kpvNYM

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You can find a short description of these coin manufacturing techniques at
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Ever wondered what a coin die really looks like?
Here is a 15th-century lower die (on the left) and two upper dies (at the top) for hammering coins,
and a 16th-century cylindrical die (on the right) for roller mills, seen at the Bode Museum, Berlin.

This is one of the many Scottish coins I'll be covering in my online talk on the Lord Stewartby Collection. It's on Zoom at 1pm on Friday the 7th of February. Here's the signup page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friday-foc...