Shoe designer's $18.9m 'Double Eagle' sets new world record for a coin at auction

Art market

Coins and Medals

Sotheby's

Auction record

Auctions

Courtesy of Sotheby's. Photography by SquareMoose

Calling all numismatists! Biggest coin database in German-speaking world to go live today

Museums

Austria

Germany

Data on around 90,000 coins in German and Austrian collections will be made public today 

Renewed enthusiasm for Orientalist paintings and a £3.7m coin buoy London's Islamic sales week

Islamic art

London

Orientalism

Osman Hamdy Bey's record-breaking Koranic Instruction 

Catalogue of Colmar Treasure conjures up picture of 14th-century bourgeois Jewish life in France

Book Shorts

Books

Decorative arts

Medieval art

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jewellery

Jewish Heritage

Musée de Cluny

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