I wanted to post my page of links to another thread, but I thought I should check it first for broken links because it has been months since I did. Furthermore, it moved to a new server in the meantime and moving pages usually breaks some links. http://augustuscoins.com/ed/sitelinks.html Until I spent most of today fixing them, about one-third the links were broken. It is interesting how frequently web sites change servers or at least URLs. I bet if you find another site with lots of ancient-coin links (there are many), many of the links will be broken. About half of the bad links I found at a different URL using a google search for the content. I was able to fix the link for those. About half I did not find with a google search; they seem to be gone. Some of those were very good pages that took a lot of effort to create, including one on coins with ancient architecture (formerly at www.sesterzio.eu/rovesci/rovesci.htm) and one of Coins of Ancient Athens (formerly at www.coinsofancientathens.com/) and one with images of fakes of of Sasanian-style coins of the Huns (formerly at www.grifterrec.com/y/gobl_8-9_comp.jpg). Maybe they are still on the web somewhere. If you know where, let me know. There are a huge number of ancient-coin sites. (By the way, note how many are created by collectors, including some by scholars who collect, and how few are created by scholars who don't collect. Don't let anyone tell you collecting is bad for knowledge.) I have no intention of listing all the relevant sites (a virtual impossibility, anyway). I wanted to list sites of interest and importance to beginners, plus some others that go deeply into particular cities, emperors, or theme collections. If you find any broken links, let me know. If you have a favorite site with links, let us all know.
Thanks! V useful. I like this blog, which isn't just about coins but has some excellent numismatic posts: https://brooklynsabbatical.wordpress.com/
I of course had to try the Severus Alexander link, but I think you'll find it doesn't go where you expect (actually linking it would violate Coin Talk rules I suspect!)...
I deleted that link. Does anyone know where there is a web site dedicated to coins of Severus Alexander? There was a good one and my page linked to it, but the link broke and a a google search did not find it elsewhere.
The best free source I know of is the revised ERIC II section, available for free: http://www.dirtyoldbooks.com/CC/The-Complete-Coinage-of-Severus-Alexander.html But it's just a catalogue, with indications of scarcity... no scholarly info unfortunately.
Keep in mind (and you're probably already aware), if a particular site was very useful but simply shut down at some point, you can still use it as a reference/link if it can be found using the WayBack Machine (Internet Archive): http://archive.org/web/web.php
Thanks for the reminder. I just tried the old URL and got: Page cannot be displayed due to robots.txt. So, in that particular case I can't add a link to old versions of it. I did find a wayback link to a missing image of fakes of Hunnish Sasanian-type coins and put in the wayback link. Two other broken links had wayback links, but with only text and none of the images, which means they are not worth linking to. So, in one case the wayback site helped, in others it didn't. But, it is good to be reminded to try it.
@Valentinian thanks for sharing! It is tuff keeping a link page up to date. After seeing your post I went to the web page for the Pasadena Coin Club and found that my phone number is wrong (or at least going away in a few weeks) and several of the links are out of date (including the Smithsonian coin collection link). Some of the older links appear to have been purchased and show something like coin information with other links.
