What do I like about Byzantine coinage? Most people probably admire the Byzantine solidus , a gold coin that maintained its weight and purit...

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Henry VIII, after Hans Holbein the Younger It's fun to imagine traveling back in time and engaging with the then-prevailing technologies...

Along with the trillion dollar platinum coin and premium/perpetual bonds , the gold trick lies in the genre of strange-accounting-tricks-to...

From the Israel Museum in Jerusalem’s 2013 exhibition White Gold  [Originally published at Bullionstar.] For several years Brits have been ...

An imitation English half noble issued by Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, 1384-1404 [ source ] [This is a republication of an article I ...

An Islamic gold dinar minted by Offa, a Christian king of Mercia [ source ] If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed that I've...

As Russia is progressively cut off from U.S. and European payments systems thanks to an ever tightening wave of sanctions, the idea of using...