As we were all recovering from the excitement of our October World Banknotes auction, with the group of East African and Lebanese discoveries, preparation for the spring auctions started once again.
SPRING BANKNOTE SALES Read Article »
Following on from our ground breaking Polar Exhibition in November last year, we asked David Rose to talk to three times cancer survivor Patrick McIntosh about his trek across the Antarctic to the South Pole.
LIFE CYCLE: A GLOBAL RIDE TO FIGHT CANCER (AROUND THE SOUTH POLE) Read Article »
While describing how Robert Strange prepared etching plates to print paper money for Prince Charles Edward Stuart to pay his troops as the Jacobite rebellion collapsed in 1746, Jonathan Callaway recalled the mysterious fate of a cache of French gold…
THE ENGLISHMAN WHO SAVED THE JACOBITES’ GOLD Read Article »
Port Royal was captured by the English in 1655 during the invasion of Jamaica. It grew very rapidly both in trade and in notoriety. Treasure from the sacked Spanish cities and goods from many hundreds of ships found a ready market here.
The Port Royal Earthquake of 1692 Read Article »
The term “Parthian” comes from the name of the satrapy of Parthava (Parthia), a province that was once part of the empire of the Hellenistic Seleucids, and before that of the Achaemenid Persians.
RIVALLING ROME: PARTHIAN COINS AND CULTURE Read Article »
Ahead of David Sear’s much anticipated new release, An Introductory Guide to Ancient Greek and Roman Coins, Olivia Marshall from our book department asked the author to provide Insider readers with an insight…
AN INTERVIEW WITH DAVID R SEAR Read Article »
Spink’s own Gregory Edmund discusses archive material in this Insider piece
From the Archive: The Great Pearl Sensation of 1891 Read Article »
Andrew Brown discusses Roman Coinage in this Insider feature
ROMAN COINAGE ON THE PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES SCHEME Read Article »
In November 2019, Spink unveiled the most important exhibition dedicated to Polar exploration ever staged
200 Years of Polar Exploration Read Article »
Pen Hadow, British explorer and conservationist, writes about his Arctic expedition
IT’S NOT ALL WHITE AT THE NORTH POLE Read Article »
