SIAMESE COINS BOOK WINS IAPN PRIZE

Siamese Coins from Funan to the Fifth Reign by Ronachai Krisadaolarn and Vasilijs Mihailovs and published by Riverbooks wins First Prize at the Leipzig Convention of The International Association of Professional Numismatists (or IAPN) winning more points than the other two publications

The results as reported by Jan Aamlid are:

3rd place: Rafael Tauler Fesser, Oro Macuquinoi Catalogo Imperio Espanol 1474 a 1756 1, 2, 4 y 8 (36 points)

2nd place: Italo Vecchi, Etruscan Coinage part I (56 points)

1st place: Siamese Coins from Funan to the Fifth Reign (124 points)

The International Association of Professional Numismatists (or IAPN), founded in 1951, is a non-profit organisation of the leading international numismatic firms. The objects of the Association are the development of a healthy and prosperous numismatic trade conducted according to the highest standards of business ethics and commercial practice.

The IAPN was constituted at a meeting held in Geneva in 1951 to which the leading international numismatic firms had been invited. There were 28 founding members. The objectives of the Association are the development of a healthy and prosperous numismatic trade conducted according to the highest standards of business ethics and commercial practice, the encouragement of scientific research and the propagation of numismatics, and the creation of lasting and friendly relations amongst professional numismatists throughout the world.

Membership is vested in numismatic firms, or in numismatic departments of other commercial institution, and not in individuals. Today there are more than 110 numismatic member firms, situated in five continents and twenty-one countries. the General Assembly is the supreme organ of the Association, and this is convened annually, normally in a different country.

For more information on IAPN, see: www.iapn-coins.org

Wayne Homren, Editor

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