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Christie’s has chosen to postpone many of its forthcoming international sales and close most of its offices in response to the coronavirus. The firm's March and April calendar is being restructured with sales in New York and Paris put on hold for at least two months, although its London office remains open.

Three Old Master paintings, including Annibale Carracci’s A Boy Drinking, have been stolen from a museum in Oxford.

With estimates from £200-8000, here are six previews of upcoming items this week.

A silver penny of Ludica, a virtually unknown Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia, has sold for £32,000.

Auction house Phillips has decided to postpone all of its sales and events globally until mid-May.

The most popular stories on this website over the last week included news of a 3000-year-old Bronze age gold sun pendant, known as a bulla, being bought by the British Museum after it was found by a metal detectorist in Shropshire.

Managers of the Edinburgh Premier Fair, run by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association (ABA) & Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association (PBFA), have called off the next staging.