Sedwick’s Shipwreck Treasure Auction #3 includes a rare astrolabe, silver coins, gold ingots, Chinese porcelain and other artifacts carefully selected for quality and eye-appeal.

In this latest auction, Numismatist Daniel Frank Sedwick included treasure artifacts of over 1100 lots from many shipwreck finds, including:

• Gold cobs from the Spanish 1715 Fleet of the east coast of Florida,
• Gold ingots and nuggets from the Espadarte wreck of 1558 off Mozambique,
• Silver “tumbaga” ingots from the still-unidentified wreck of ca. 1528 off the Bahamas,
• Rare mariner’s astrolabe from a Florida wreck (ca. 1580),
• Small artifacts from the Arqueonautas finds off Africa,
• Porcelains from wrecks off the Philippines (the Ying Lung collection).

The shipwreck coins section of the auction includes two large offerings:

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Largest Collection Ever of Historic Law Badges, Martial Arms & Militaria, and Fine Arms & Sporting Guns Expected to Total Over $2.7 Million in Greg Martin Auctions on June 16-17.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, MAY 20, 2008 – Greg Martin Auctions has announced its Summer Sale will be held on June 16 - 17, 2008, at the company’s auction gallery in San Francisco.  This event will feature three separate catalogs with exceptional and diverse offerings in three areas:  “Martial Arms and Militaria,” “Fine and Historic American Badges,” and “Fine and Collectible Arms and Sporting Guns featuring Estate Arms Collections.” 

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Welcome to this week’s Numismatic Headlines, a compilation of some of the best articles that were NOT written by CoinNews writers or posted as CoinNews articles.

For those, you can go straight to the CoinNews "Today" page.

The articles may, however, and likely were listed every day on the CoinNews page, Today’s RSS Coin News Feeds, which list aggregated numismatic, shipwreck and gold stories from across the web.

Here are several numismatic articles for the week:

• You won’t make a mint buying coins this way - Q13 Fox News, May 18
  What if I offered to sell you an ordinary quarter for 60 cents? You’d tell me to . . . well, I can’t print what you’d probably tell me to do.

• Whitman Returns to Canada - Coin Collector’s Blog, May 18
  Whitman Publishing sent out an email notice announcing that they will be selling a complete line of folders for Canada coins.

• Is Technical Grading Worth Knowing Today? - Numismatic News, May 19
  In this column, I shall try to put an end to some misconceptions about technical coin grading. I have seen some inaccurate postings on numismatic online forums

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The Professional Numismatists Guild continues its PNG Share the Knowledge seminars this summer in three major numismatic conventions. Seminar presenters include Jeff Garrett, Donald Kagin, Gary Adkins, Q. David Bowers and Mary Counts.

(Fallbrook, California) – The Professional Numismatists Guild will continue its year-long series of PNG Share the Knowledge educational seminars at major numismatic conventions in June and August.  Programs will be conducted by PNG member-dealers at the Whitman Baltimore Coin and Currency Convention, June 6; the American Numismatic Association World’s Fair of Money® in Baltimore, August 1 and 2; and at the Whitman Coin and Collectibles Atlanta Expo, August 22, 2008.

A complimentary light lunch will be available for audience members at each seminar.  The seminars are free and open to collectors and dealers as a way for some of the hobby’s top experts to share their knowledge.

PNG Immediate Past President Jeff Garrett of Lexington, Kentucky will present a program about “United States Gold Coins and The Smithsonian Collection” at Noon on Friday, June 6, in room 303 of the Baltimore Convention Center.

“While doing research for the book, Encyclopedia of United States Gold Coins, I had the opportunity to study one of the greatest collections of gold coins ever assembled.  During my seminar I’ll discuss the history of the collection, the museum and many of the incredible highlights that make the National Numismatic Collection one of the finest in the world,” said Garrett.

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