Coin Dealer Australia - Sterling & Currency

The glossy Australian Financial Review Magazine last week included an in-depth article on a key figure in Australia's art industry, and was preceded by several smaller articles where calls for regu

Just when I thought I'd seen it all, along comes this website: coincollectingboards.com.

News this week in the world of rare coins & notes is the relocation of the ANA (American Numismatic Association) from one part of

Every now and then, something happens in the daily life of this coin dealer that really makes me stop.

Way back a few months ago when the APEC summit was being held in Sydney (described by one well-respected geopolitical analyst as being "a fairly irrelevant pause at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Australia"), the Chaser team wasn't the only group to lampoon the activities of Howard, Bush et al.

With a script like something out of a Hollywood movie, one of
America's rarest coins (with a pricetag of US$3 million) was recently
re-discovered after having been believed missing for several decades.
The mainstream media loves to beat up stories about little old ladies
discovering rarities in their closets or some such, but this story really has to be seen to be believed.

There are numerous news articles today about the Clayton's introduction of a $1,000 note to the Zimbabwe economy.
There are currency changes around the world all the time - why is this
one interesting to the general public? Rampant inflation has been an
unfortunate feature of the Zimbabwean economy for some years now (it's
currently running at no less than 1,594% per annum at present), trouble

There have been two crimes in the numismatic world recently that
have obtained a degree of publicity on the internet - the first is the robbery of around US$4 million in rare US coins from a dealer attending a coin show in Florida early in the New Year, the second is the murder of a US coin dealer last year.

At a time when Khazakstan is in the news on the back of publicity surrounding the release of "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan", we have a numismatic twist to the Kazakh story of national competence: the nation's name was misspelt on a batch of notes released into circulation recently.

Any time a government makes a change to a country's circulating
currency, it really gets the collector market going. Take a look at the
times when this has happened in Australia: the change to decimal
currency in 1966; the introduction of the $1 & $2 coins (1984 &
1988); the removal of 1¢ & 2¢ pieces (1991); the introduction of
polymer banknotes (1988 to 1996), the list goes on. Each one of these
events had an impact on the market for coins & notes in Australia,
pushing it upward each time.