Coins and Medals
Ancient Greek gold coin from Crimea sells for a record-breaking £4.8m
The rare stater depicting a satyr—a "marvel of speaking portraiture"—was once in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum but was sold to raise money for the Soviet government
Scurrilous, rude and joyful: the secret stories of tampered pennies told in new publication
Essays explore the myriad ways that coins have been inscribed with messages of protest, love and more
Amateur historian discovers 600-year-old English coin in Newfoundland
The coin was minted 70 years before the first documented arrival of non-Viking Europeans to the region
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
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
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
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
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