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I had a new term revealed to me earlier this year - “temporal landmark”, which refers to the landmarks we declare in the passage of time, whether that be the start to a new year, a birthday, anniversary or even a work-week or something as simple as lunchtime. It turns out that these landm...

Big news in the Australian numismatic industry came out on February 5th 2018 - the former Managing Director of the Rare Coin Company, Mr Rob Jackman, was sentenced to 4 years 2 months jail for fraud. ...

Although a number of fairly short and sweet online numismatic sales have been held over the past week, it's nearly a month since the last major numismatic auction in Australia was held for 2017 - Noble Numismatics 116 from November 21st. As Noble's are known for, the sale spanned 4 days a...

We wouldn’t ordinarily frame the passage of time in terms of dollars and cents, however if we divide the total turnover in the last Noble auction by the number of hours it took for the whole auction to run to completion, the sales activity works out to have gone down at around $70,000 per ho...

Downie’s numismatic auction # 324 wrapped up last Thursday, and although it certainly was cool outside, temperatures seemed reasonably steady in the room. The total turnover for the auction was within cooee of Downie’s recent auctions, as were all of the other vital statistics: ...

There are very few collectors indeed that are prepared to disregard quality for a nanosecond, particularly in the age of registry set competitions. That said, if a collector were to judge the merit of the next Noble Numismatics auction, they’ll feel the width of the catalogue filling out at ...

It’s been some weeks since we had a major auction or show here in Australia - the last major auction was Status International in the first week of June, the last show was the Money Expo in Brisbane a few weeks before that. The market is now changing gears into the winter ...

Here we are post-budget 2017, and the numismatic market is in full swing - Roxbury’s Auction 98 is underway as I write this, and the Brisbane Money Expo will be held this weekend at the Royal International Convention Centre in Bowen Hills (B...