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Welcome to Curator & Collector‘s second carnival of the numismatics bloggers! This carnival of North American blogs covers the month of March; our previous one covered February. Although we have noted how few people in the North American blogosphere are actually blogging about coins, paper money, medallions, and medals on a regular basis, this edition [...]

This post is neither a museums post, nor a numismatics post, but a note for the technically-inclined. We’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.5. The chief reason for our decision to upgrade was to prevent the post composition window from “messing with” our code, as the WordPress people put it. This was extremely annoying, as every time [...]

Somehow this just doesn’t sound right: “The simple story of a troubled young man who left behind a life of crime thanks to Winnipeg’s Graffiti Art program was enough for the city to make one last addition to its 2008 budget Thursday.” Since we’re on the subject of Winnipeg, we should mention that the Winnipeg [...]

Another very brief post today. The BBC is reporting a 150 year-old French song, “Au clair de la lune,” that was “recorded” by a device that represented sound waves with lines on a paper has been recovered. One of our favourite colleagues sent us a further link to several other historic recordings. Since we are [...]

We’re going to take something of an off-day today as we are exhausted. Fortunately, we’ve been wanting to highlight the wonderful special museums section of the New York Times, and it appears we’ve just done that.

1935 Canadian silver dollar obverse and reverse Artefacts, including–perhaps even especially–coins, tell stories. Today we wish to share with our readers two images of, and a few thoughts on Canada’s first circulation dollar coin, which came in 1935, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the coronation of King George V. This auspicious occasion was deemed sufficient reason [...]

After around two months of blogging, Curator & Collector now has had over 1000 unique visitors. While our numbers have been small, they have been from interesting places. Our statcounter informs us we have had visitors from: -various universities in Canada, and America, including the British Museum -various museums, including the Textiles Museum, the Mingei, [...]

Akaky Akakyevitch and all other poor Russian literary heroes would be surprised to see what inflation and the rising cost of metals can do to an economy. In its own version of the penny crisis, wherein the lowest denomination coins cost more to make then what they are worth, Russia is considering abolishing the one-kopek [...]

Not a week goes by without several donations to museums, and we have several today to report. Starting with the smallest, the Children’s Museum of Arkansas received $370,000 in the form of a grant from the Walton Family Foundation. Part of the money will be used to hire an executive director. The Museum of East [...]

Image of a shekel coin from Coinnews.net We have two nice numismatic finds to report today. A 2000 year-old shekel coin was found a few days ago in a drainage channel just outside Jerusalem’s Old City. This was in addition to a find of bronze coins uncovered by the same excavation. Meanwhile, in the United [...]