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2 Euro commemorative coins. €2 commemorative coins are special euro coins that have been minted and issued by member states of the eurozone since 2004 as legal tender in all eurozone member states. €2 coins are the only denomination intended for circulation that may be issued as commemorative coins.
The Sydney 2000 Olympic Silver Coin Collection consists of 16 proof quality coins that have been released two at a time between October 1997 and February 2000. One coin in each release reflects the coming together of peoples and ideas in our culturally diverse nation, as expressed in the four great festivals being celebrated in Sydney leading ...
Collection shared between the British Museum and the Royal Mint Museum [49] [50] Kutsuki Masatsuna: 1750: 1802: Collection now in the British Museum and the Ashmolean Museum [51] Jacob Georg Christian Adler: 1756: 1834: Collection is in the University of Rostock [44] John Quincy Adams: 1767: 1848: Collection auctioned by the Massachusetts ...
Born in Okayama, Japan, Takako Yamaguchi has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 1978. During the early years of her practice, Yamaguchi moved between Japan, the U.S. and France. Yamaguchi studied at the International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan (1971-1973) and received her B.A. from Bates College in 1975.
The Barakat Gallery is an antiquities dealership with locations in London, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Seoul. [1] Barakat is considered to have one of the largest collection of ancient art for sale in the world, and one of the largest collections in private hands, at around 40,000 items with total valuation of over $1.5 billion USD according to several sources.
Among other holdings, GRI's research library contains over 1 million volumes of books, periodicals, and auction catalogs; special collections; and two million photographs of art and architecture. [16] The library is located at the Getty Center, and does not circulate its collections, but does extend library privileges to any visitor. [17]
The first coin of the series was the 1983 silver dollar, which was the first commemorative dollar issued by the US Mint since the Grant Memorial gold dollar of 1922. Public Law 97-220 authorized 50,000,000 Los Angeles XXIII Olympiad dollars to be minted in 1983 and 1984. [2]
The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Clark Library), is a library affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles.It holds books and manuscripts with particularly many regarding English literature and history from the 17th-19th century, Oscar Wilde and the fin de siècle, and fine press printing.