Hookmoor Website Closure After many years, I have decided to close down this website. Since retiring from active online sales, exacerbated by Brexit and COVID, the costs of maintaining the website relative to income from sales means it is no longer viable. So when the current webspace contract expires, it will be no more! So […read more…]
The DiMarzio Collection The most important London mint collection for over a decade is about to come to market. Not since the Vogelaar collection was offered by Spink and CNG in 2008 and 2009 will so much material come onto the market. The collection has been built up over twenty years and consists of over […read more…]
Numismatic Books for Sale I am currently having to slim down my personal numismatic library. So, over the next few months I will be listing a number of books for sale. Images are available on request. I can only ship within the UK and all prices include shipping by Royal Mail. There […read more…]
LMCC Supplement No. 2 In Preparation We are now working on a second downloadable pdf supplement to our 2015 book, The London Mint of Constantius and Constantine (LMCC). Once again the supplement will be designed so that users of LMCC can add it to their copies of the book for easy reference. I can also report that Spink […read more…]
A LMCC Supplement No. 1 Published We have just published on the addenda page a downloadable pdf supplement to our 2015 book, The London Mint of Constantius and Constantine (LMCC). The supplement is designed so that users of LMCC can add it to their copies of the book for easy reference. The document, “Supplement No. 1”, follows the A4 […read more…]
LMCC Plate Coins for Sale London mint plate coins from LMCC are now being offered for sale and those available are listed on the ‘Coins for sale’ page. Images are, of course, in the book but I will add images over the coming week. A selection of other London mint coins will also be […read more…]
Wold Newton Hoard Lecture by Andrew Woods In this lecture organised by the Yorkshire Numismatic Society, Dr Andrew Woods, Senior Curator, York Museums Trust, discusses the Wold Newton hoard. The hoard was found in 2015 and acquired by York Museums Trust in 2016. It is now on display in the Yorkshire Museum. […read more…]
LMCC Addenda Page Revised June 2017 It has been a while since the LMCC addenda has been updated. There have been a number of items accumulating over the last few months and in particular, the recent ROMA auctions of ‘The Collection of a Connoisseur’ has provided us with some interesting new material. We […read more…]
LMCC Addenda page Revised LMCC Addenda Page Revised We have recently updated the LMCC addenda page to include the new London mint coins discovered in the Wold Newton hoard and a number of other new coins submitted by collectors. The new entries are repeated below for ease of identification. New London mint coins […read more…]
The Wold Newton Hoard The Wold Newton Hoard The Wold Newton hoard was discovered in 2014 and is now on display at the Yorkshire Museum. In the pot were 1,857 coins all dating from the Tetrarchic period apart from one radiate. Over a quarter of the coins in the hoard, exactly 500, […read more…]