It's more a pamphlet, just 12 pages long, covering coins from 1808-2008. It was written by the former president of Guyana and published in Guyana.
According to Guyana's Coinage by David Granger, "in 1836 the The Colonial Bank of the West Indies and the British Guiana Bank were granted their...
I had forgotten about this 2021 post until @NumisFreddie 's recent reply. [ATTACH] LESBOS. Mytilene 3rd-2nd centuries BC. AE 15. Obv: Laureate...
It's a safe site. I know the operator. The site is run by Paul Stevens, author of The Coins of the English East India Company. He builds it all...
Just me. No one else says it.
For a long time I thought these came from Olbia, not Parion. I now believe these come from Thrace, perhaps Bizya, rather than either of those...
@PamR , the engraver on the 1946 was the American Charles Barber, famous among US coin collectors for the Barber dime, quarter, half dollar, and...
I don't have McAlee's book. Is the type below discussed? The claim is that it is of Antioch, but I don't see it in RPC online. [ATTACH] SYRIA,...
I can't read Arabic. Zeno has 92 specimens; a good strategy is to compare your coin to the Zakiat and non-Zakiat examples for confirmation.
What a wonderful coin, @Parthicus ! Michael Bates suggested that Ziyad was the son of a prostitute and never knew who his father was. How he...
@Curtis , I bought the single-copy lot of Klein. I wasn't able to participate live. It was my only acquisition from the auction.
Barclay Head wrote "These types may represent a local myth of a nymph attacked by a serpent and rescued by a hero" citing Imhoof-Blumer, Kl. M.,...
Thanks @Helvetica . Here is an image of the one I bought as a replica for $5 in 2010.[ATTACH]
@Curtis has given a good list of places to find online catalogs. However, you won't find many catalogs there. Original catalogs before 1970 are...
Lilybaion is a scarce city. ACSearch records just 290 tetradrachms. I don't know how many ex-Numis has in their pre-Internet database, but...
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