Coin Collector

Publisher: Matt Hill matthewh@warnersgroup.co.uk Tel: 0113 200 2912 Editor: Matt Hill Assistant Editor: Tina Jackson Contributors: Graham Barker, Alison Boyd, Michael Burzan, Jonathan Callaway, Isaac George, Jeff Garrett, Paula Hammond, Adrian Marsde

It’s now five years since we launched Coin Collector as a quarterly guide to all things numismatic. Now, thanks to the magazine’s continued success and your ongoing loyalty and support, I’m delighted to announce that the magazine will be published on

Paula Hammond has worked as a publisher, copy-writer, ghost-writer, author, and journalist. She has written over thirty fiction and non-fiction books as well as comics, poetry, and scripts, and is a regular contributor to Coin Collector. Her collecti

Jonathan Callaway is a Director of the International Bank Note Society Lawrence Chard Founder and Expert Numismatist, Speciality Sovereigns Jeff Garrett US coin dealer and board member of the Smithsonian Museum of American History Richard Kelleher As

A new one-week seminar, the Professional Numismatist Program, has been announced by Stack’s Bowers Galleries in the USA. Run by the company’s team of numismatic professionals, it is scheduled to run from 30 July to 5 August. The aim of the programme

A recently discovered Victorian silver sixpence is one of a number bearing the word ‘Dritanniar’ instead of the correct ‘Britanniar’. The die 6 coin was one of a batch minted in 1878 bearing the error. It is believed that only a few thousand of the m

Just in case you missed our exciting news, the team behind Coin Collector magazine are delighted to announce that the magazine will be increasing frequency, with six issues set to be published each year rather than four. Editor Matt Hill said: ‘When

A major new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, titled Labyrinth Knossos, Myth and Reality, will be the first UK exhibition to focus on Knossos. It includes over 100 objects that have never left Crete and Greece before, alongside discoverie

A previously unknown type of a Celtic silver coin, known as ‘Berkshire Boars’, was recently found in Wiltshire. Minted in the middle of the first-century BC, it is believed to have belonged to a small tribe in Berkshire, whose ancient British name is

Your credit score might be 720 or 721, but that one point difference really does not matter. On the other hand, if a World Cup match is tied, with seconds left in the game, the outcome of a penalty kick makes a huge difference. Rare coins are not qui

Any historian will tell you that it’s almost impossible to say, with absolute certainty, that ‘this was the first’ of anything. When it comes to coinage, though, we’re entering very muddy waters indeed. Every civilisation has had its own systems of b

The history of Lebanon as a politically separate entity dates back to its time as part of the Ottoman Empire. The Christian-majority areas of Lebanon had first been separated from the province of Damascus in 1862. The region was occupied by the Frenc

Denomination: €10 Diameter: 32mm Weight: 16.82g Metal: Alloy: 92.5% Sterling Silver/92.5% Sterling Silver/Copper Mintage: 30,000/30,000/130,000 Mint: Austrian Mint Denomination: €5 Diameter: 28.5mm Weight: 8g Metal: 80% Silver/99.9% Copper Mintage: 5

The indigenous Hawaiian composer, custodian of native culture and traditions, Edith Kanaka’ole, is the latest subject to be honoured on a US coin as part of the American Women Quarters Program. The Edith Kanaka’ole quarter is the seventh coin in the

We have Harry Potter 2022 UK 50p Brilliant Uncirculated Four-Coin Collection to give away in this issue’s competition! This UK 50p coin collection celebrates 25 years of Harry Potter. Comprising four designs, the collection features Harry Potter, the