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CoinWeek presents selected highlights from the Stack's Bowers 2024 NYINC Ancient and World Coin Auction, held January 12-18.

CoinWeek's ancient coin expert Mike Markowitz writes about the coins of the emperors who presided over the Fall of Rome.

Throughout history, competent patriarchs have been succeeded by incompetent and downright mad sons. Mike Markowitz talks about their coins.

The Medieval English Coins of the Wars of the Roses   The late medieval monarchies of Europe were fundamentally fragile and prone to civil disorder. Political stability and harmony depended ultimately on the personal capacity of individual kings. In the second half of the fifteenth century, the western kingdoms all endured upheaval and civil war as a result of disputed, ineffective or overbearing rule… [1] France, the English king Henry V died suddenly on August 31, 1422 at the age of 35, l...