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Making the Case for Collecting World Coins – Moving Beyond US Coinage

Guest Commentary by Martin Kaplan for CoinWeek ..... In an article that I read discussing the results of a past Heritage World Coin Auction it...

Medieval Coins of Portugal

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ..... Portugal, a small, narrow country on the Atlantic coast of the Iberian peninsula ... was created during the Christian...

CoinWeek Podcast #161: Let’s Get Medieval: Mike Markowitz on Coins of the Middle Ages

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Medieval World Coins: The Allan Evans Papers

By David Yoon for American Numismatic Society (ANS) ...... The many treasures of the American Numismatic Society’s (ANS) archives include not only the Society’s own...

The Coinage of Ancient Mauretania

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz .....   ANCIENT MAURETANIA WAS a region of coastal North Africa stretching from modern-day Algeria to Morocco. It should...

Medieval English Coins – The Coins of Æthelred the Unready

By Michael T. Shutterly for CoinWeek .....   Æthelred II became King of England on March 18, 978 after the murder of his half-brother Edward, known...

The Medieval English Coins of the Wars of the Roses

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ..... The late medieval monarchies of Europe were fundamentally fragile and prone to civil disorder. Political stability and harmony depended...

Ancient and Medieval Coins as Royal Propaganda

By Tyler Rossi for CoinWeek .....   How does a monarch solidify legitimacy? What tools can be drawn upon to project power? Since a centralized state monopolizes...

Byzantine Coinage of the Empress Irene – CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   ATHENS IN THE eighth century was a provincial small town living on memories of past glories. But its aristocrats...

Coinage of the Mughals

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ..... The Mughal (or “Moghul") Empire ruled much of South Asia for over three centuries. Mughal emperors accumulated vast wealth,...

Coins of Medieval Hungary: Part 2

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ..... Link to Part I When King Andrew III, last survivor of Hungary’s Árpád dynasty, died without an heir in 1301,...

Coins of Medieval Hungary: Part I

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ..... ABOUT THE YEAR 895, THE MAGYARS, a federation of nomadic tribes whose origin was in the distant forests of...

CoinWeek Ancient Coins: Coins of Medieval Armenia

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ..... THE CILICIAN KINGDOM OF ARMENIA (1199 – 1375) produced a vibrant culture strongly influenced by interaction with neighboring Crusader states....

Medieval Numismatics: Coins of the Crusaders

Crusaders coins survive in surprising abundance and have much to tell us about this distant era, which has so many parallels to contemporary events.   CoinWeek...

CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Ancient Coinage of Armenia

By Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek .....   The Armenians have been described through the centuries as adaptable, resilient, enterprising and steadfast. How they managed to survive...

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