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Islam has been the dominant religion of Afghanistan since Mahmud of Ghazni expelled the Shahis in 998. Devout followers of the Prophet Mohammed, t...

During the Second World War, the German war machine, like the rest of the world’s combatants, was conserving strategic metals for the war effort. ...

Maximilien Robespierre (6 May 1758 – 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer, politician, and one of the best known and most influential figures of the ...

Hungary was among the last kingdoms in Central Europe to adopt Christianity, resisting conversion until the reign of St. Stephen in 1038 CE. But t...

During the Second World War, the German war machine, like the rest of the world’s combatants, was conserving strategic metals for the war effort. ...

Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning apart-ness. With the emergence of the National Party in 1948, it became the law of the land in South Africa...

Kim Il Sung (b. 1912) was the ruler of North Korea from the founding of the so-called Democratic People’s Republic in 1948 until his death in 1994...

The Notes: This collection of banknotes features issues from former Soviet Republics, proxy states, and other notable nations where the Cold War w...

From October 29, 1929 until the beginning of the Second World War, the industrialized world suffered through one of the longest and deepest econom...

Included: 1. Armenia | 25 Dram | Obv: Frieze with lion from Erebuni castle│Rev: Arched ornament Dimensions: 126 x 62 mm 2. Azerbaijan | 250 Mana...

On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, paid a state visit to the Bosnian city of Sarajevo....

Michael Romanov (1596-1645) did not want to be tsar. He was sixteen years old, a quiet, shy, and deeply religious young man; nothing in his nature...

In 1915 a type of stamp-note was ushered in by the Imperialist Russia. These notes were printed to resemble the stamps of the same value then in ci...

During the Spanish Civil War (1938), the Republic issued postage stamps as money. The government printed small brown disks from cardboard with the ...

For nearly 10 centuries, during and after British rule, the monetary system of Ireland was a confusion of farthings, shillings, florins, crowns, a...

15 uncirculated, legal tender coins from 15 different African nations, all featuring images of their indigenous wildlife. Botswana 5 thebe, toko ...

To Western eyes, this Ottoman coin looks unfamiliar. On the obverse, where we are accustomed to seeing the bust of an emperor, queen, or president...

Pen-pal to philosophes, patron of the arts, champion of women, genius of foreign policy, taker of rich and powerful lovers: Catherine II of Russia...

Napoleon Bonaparte may be the most famous Frenchman entombed in Paris, but it is his namesake nephew, Napoleon III, who is responsible for convert...

This unique collection includes 12 silver coins struck in Europe during the Middle Ages. Because no two coins are alike, owing to the crude mediev...