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Exhibition Currencies & Wonders at Monnaie de Paris
From 12 May 12 to 25 September 2022, Monnaie de Paris (the Paris Mint) held a brand-new exhibition entitled Monnaies & Merveilles. Conceived as a “gigantic cabinet of curiosities”…
Ancient drachma: a thousand-year-old currency
The drachma was the Greek monetary unit, during Antiquity, but also before the arrival of the euro from 1831 to 2000. It is therefore the witness of a part of Greek history and contains a considerable …
Ancient Greek currencies: a whole history
Ancient Greek currencies are mythical. They are the oldest coins in the world and bear witness to a great civilization. Collecting them is truly a journey through time. And this…
The monuments on Roman coins
Numismatics is also a way to immerse yourself in history. Coins are often the witnesses of an era and the symbol of a country, a region, a city even. In Roman antiquity, coins were, among other things…
5 prestigious Greek coins
History and archaeological excavations agree that these coins were born in Minor Asia in the seventh century BC. In the legendary country of Croesus, in Lydia, the first coins were…
The sinking of the S.S. Camberwell
The S.S Camberwell, a British freighter bound for India, sank in the English Channel in 1917 after hitting a German mine. Part of the crew was washed away, as well…
