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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 25/04/2025

People's Republic of Romania, 50 bani, 1955 Cupronickel, 4.5 g, 25 mm N# 9023

Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 25/04/2025

Heavily worn coins have a charm of their own. I can only imagine how many years this one spent jingling in the pockets of Romanian workers.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 18/04/2025

Coins come in all kinds of shapes and techniques. Here are some bullet coins from Siam (Thailand): small silver bullets, bended into an almost ball shape and stamped. This kind of coins was used from the 13th century up until 1904.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 17/04/2025

Interesting discussion in the latest issue of the Bulletin of the French Numismatic Society: are the wreaths on the coins of the Achaean League olive or laurel leaves? The difference matters when describing coins accurately!

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 04/04/2025

Bhutan, 10 Chhertum, 1979 Bronze, 3.6 g, 20.4 mm N#6436

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 04/04/2025

The right-turning white conch shell 🐚is one of the Eight Auspicious Signs in Buddhism, the state religion of Bhutan 🇧🇹, where this 10 Chhertum coin circulated.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 27/03/2025

Thank you CoinsWeekly for sharing the word about the new literature section on Numista! We are proud of this new collaborative database of numismatic books, journals and articles, intended to promote and facilitate access to printed numismatic knowledge. new.coinsweekly.com/news-en/numi...

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 26/03/2025

Join us for the 3rd session of the INAC conference on Sunday (March 30th). The programme includes travelling Dutch coins, mints of the Madras presidency, coins of the Sogdian principality of Abgar, and archeological finds of Samarqand.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 24/03/2025

San Marino, 1000 Lire, 2000 Copper-nickel and aluminium bronze, 8.8 g, 27 mm N#9915

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 24/03/2025

A nice bimetallic coin from San Marino, showing a swallow flying over the Earth, escaping barbed wire, hoping for world peace 🕊️

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 19/03/2025

France, plaquette, 1900 Silvered bronze, 57 g, 60 × 42 mm N#461249

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 19/03/2025

A winged Victory is holding laurel branches over the site of the Universal Exhibition 1900 in Paris. The plaquette was awarded to 10,000 laureates of the Games of the II Olympiad, which were held together with the Exhibition.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 10/03/2025

Numista’s collection management just got better! Now you can now add third-party grading info, acquisition details, and measurements to every coin or banknote in your collection.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 04/03/2025

🪙Uruguay, 10 Pesos Uruguayos, 2011 Brass plated steel and nickel plated steel, 28 mm, 10.5 g N#22257

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 04/03/2025

Animals make wonderful coin designs! Check out this Uruguayan 10 pesos bimetallic coin featuring a graceful puma (Puma concolor) strolling in front of a rising sun.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 03/03/2025

🪙Aegina, Stater, ND (520 BC - 480 BC) Silver, 25 mm, 12 g N#96163

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 03/03/2025

Silver turtles like this one were widely used in trade during the 6th and 5th centuries BC. The sea-turtle design is distinctive of the island of Aegina, located off the northeastern coast of the Peloponnese.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 26/02/2025

Ever wondered what a coin die really looks like? Here is a 15th-century lower die (on the left) and two upper dies (at the top) for hammering coins, and a 16th-century cylindrical die (on the right) for roller mills, seen at the Bode Museum, Berlin.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 05/02/2025

Stained-glass window illustrating the production of coins, from the mint of Schaffhausen, 1565. 🪙🔨 Exhibited in the gallery of the Münzkabinett Berlin at the Bode-Museum.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 03/02/2025

Our colleague Dzmitry Huletski presents his latest book about Lithuanian coins, 1495-1536, proudly sponsored by Numista. You are welcome to join the presentation at the Bastion of the Vilnius Defence Wall on February 8th at 13:00.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 02/02/2025

After the World Money Fair, I visited the Bode-Museum, housing the Berlin Münzkabinett. The permanent exhibition shows a great variety of coins and medals. Among them:

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 01/02/2025

We are present at the World Money Fair in Berlin. Happy to meet collectors and partners, and provoking smiles with the free world coin lottery.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 24/01/2025

I'm excited to announce the Literature section on Numista! A collaborative catalog for numismatic books, periodicals, and articles. Explore 3,100+ references and growing, or contribute your own. Together, we're building the ultimate numismatic bibliography.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 30/12/2024

As we wrap up the year, Numista has reached an incredible milestone: 400,000 types of coins 🪙, tokens, medals, banknotes 💵 and paper exonumia are now described in the catalog 🎉. Thank you to the thousands of numismatic enthusiasts who contribute to the catalog, adding 130 new types every day 💙.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 20/12/2024

Je suis très heureux de la sortie du 3e tome du livre "Le Franc, les essais, les archives", soutenu par Numista. Ce 3e tome dédié à Charles X retrace notamment l'histoire du concours pour la nouvelle effigie du roi et de l'innovation de la virole brisée. 1/2

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 17/12/2024

I often observe tension between different sub-communities of coin enthusiasts, which I find unfortunate. 1/7

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 11/12/2024

Look what I found while tidying up today: my Le Franc catalog, 2nd edition. It's the first numismatic book I owned when I started collecting as a child. Good memories, checking everyone's wallet for commemorative coins.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 10/12/2024

Castor and Pollux? Rising and setting sun? Two branches of the river Danube? These two upside-down faces on the drachm of Istros (a Greek colony by the Black Sea on today's Romanian territory) are still enigmatic. 🪙 Drachm, Istros, ND (ca 340 BC - 313 BC) Silver, 18 mm, 5.9 g N#268112

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 03/12/2024

The "Numismatic Bibliography" by E. E. Clain-Stefanelli (1985), which lists 18,000 books and articles, has been described as "by far the most comprehensive modern numismatic bibliography", which "will probably never be surpassed (at least in print form)". Challenge accepted!

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 28/11/2024

The reverse is inspired by the fable of Aesop and adapted by La Fontaine 'The Lion and the Mouse': after the lion spared a rat's life, the rat repaid the kindness by freeing the lion from a hunter's net.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 28/11/2024

This French token shows the kind of screwpress which was used to coin medals and coins during the 18th century. 🪙 Token, France, ND (ca 1930) Silvered bronze, 30 mm, 12.5 g

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 26/11/2024

A significant part of Numista's recent technical developments in its numismatic catalog has focused on structuring the data to enhance its quality and consistency. 1/n

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 24/11/2024

I learned about an other coin with hieroglyphs in the latest Bulletin of the French Numismatic Society. It's an imitation of an Athenian owl with the hieroglyph 𓎝 (uah - wꜣḥ), probably minted in Philistia in the 4th century BC. Only 9 specimens, all from the same hoard discovered in Sicily in 1890.

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 22/11/2024

This silver Rupee from the Princely State of Jaisalmer has two interesting marks: the bird 🐦 is the mintmark of Jaisalmer under the reign of Ranjit Singh (1846-1864) and the parasol ☂️ is the symbol of Jaisalmer. 🪙 Rupee, Jaisalmer, Ranjit Singh & Victoria, ND (1860) Silver, 22 mm, 11 g N#1604

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Xavier Rogé (Numista) @numista.com · 20/11/2024

Coins of the French concession of Shanghai are the subject of an article in the latest edition of "Numismatique Asiatique". It describes 2 tokens from the bar Silver Dollar on Chu Pao San road, also known as "Blood Alley", where sailors came for the bars, casinos, cabarets and brothels.

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