Coins and Medals
Object lessonspreview
From a possible record-breaking Philip Guston to coins linked to Caesar’s assassination: our pick of the highlights from May's sales
Plus, a rediscovered Titian and a reliquary sculpture from Gabon
Art marketnews
Shoe designer's $18.9m 'Double Eagle' sets new world record for a coin at auction
The unique coin from 1933, part of a collection amassed by luxury shoe designer, Stuart Weitzman, sold at Sotheby's in New York yesterday
Museumsnews
Calling all numismatists! Biggest coin database in German-speaking world to go live today
The new resource provides images and data on 90,000 coins
Art marketnews
Renewed enthusiasm for Orientalist paintings and a £3.7m coin buoy London's Islamic sales week
Busy auction series brought records for Osman Hamdi Bey and Jean-Léon Gérôme, and controversial sale of two illustrated folios separated from a Persian manuscript
Book Shortsreview
Catalogue of Colmar Treasure conjures up picture of 14th-century bourgeois Jewish life in France
Hoard of objects loaned by Paris's Musée de Cluny to the Metropolitan Museum of Art tells a complex tale