This week’s headlines include the sale of a historic scale, a Canadian Inuit coin, Swiss National Bank note redesign, and a Levantine coin database.
In a November 24 auction, Holabird Western Americana Collections will sell the five-foot-tall scale used by the Carson City Mint to weigh hundreds of millions of dollars in gold and silver, including ore from the Comstock Lode. The historic 155-year-old scale was a featured attraction at a casino in Sparks, Nevada, for decades.
Photo: Holabird Americana
The Royal Canadian Mint is issuing a new $2 commemorative circulation coin that celebrates the cultural contributions of the indigenous Inuit. Four artists, each representing one of the four regions of the Inuit Nunangat, collaborated on the reverse design.
Photo: Royal Canadian Mint
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) has announced it will redesign its bank notes. The theme of the new series, which is expected to launch in the early 2030s, is “Switzerland and Its Altitudes.” The SNB estimates that one in three payments in Switzerland is made with cash.
Photo: Getty Images/Southerlycourse
The American Numismatic Society (ANS); The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Israel Antiquities Authority; and Tel Aviv University have announced the launch of the Levantine Coins Online (LCO) at numismatics.org/lco. LCO is an open-access database of Achaemenid and Hellenistic coins from the southern Levant. Examples currently shown are from the major collections of the Israel Antiquities Authority; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and the ANS.
