Here’s a riddle for you: what weighs 250 kilos, is two metres high, and features in around 6,000 selfies a day? The I amsterdam letters, of course! The iconic red and white blocks stood proudly on ...

Demetrius I, successor to Alexander the Great, was the first to choose to have his own portrait on a coin, a testament to the leader’s value of himself as coin portraits in the western world had ...