Here’s a penny with a helmet on top of the head of Knut den Mektige, or Canute the Great (or «mighty», rather), King of England 1016-35, King of...
Remember that your home page with your Wabi Sabi attitude made people like me who were sitting at home, scrubbing our small lots of LRBs, feel...
Me neither, but tracking says they arrive on Wednesday. I’ll be rather miffed if takes longer to get a coin from Switzerland to Norway than from...
Nah, we won’t let anybody tell us what or how to collect, Limes. That’s our own business:) When I started collecting, my albums felt so empty,...
It’s always a treat when @Only a Poor Old Man gives in to his addiction and later comes to coin talk to confess. Great write up as always. I try...
My way to be able to collect, has been buying and selling. As the collection builds up, I have at times sold 5 neat coins to get 1 nice coin....
I have recently been looking into the attributions of DOC 9h/Sear 140, and I’m pretty sure that a few fairly good auction houses got that wrong....
Time will tell on the first point, and I’m hopeful that we both will be around to evaluate:) I agree that «speculation» is the correct word, if...
Thank you Donna:)
«Stimmy».... :) You know the printing presses are running hot when goverment handouts get a cozy little name like that... We haven’t gotten any...
Great post. I won’t be surprised if the market adjusts after society opens up again, but I’m not as sure it will do as I was half a year ago....
I’m starting to think that @Roman Collector has a real crush on Roman women... :P Interesting post as always, thank you.
Sweet. They sold a really nice one of the type that Doug posted on Naville today. Hammer was £70+19%. I was back and forth about going for it,...
Looks like a hobo tetradrachm to me. (And no, there’s no such thing.) What was the description on ebay?
Only one thing to do: Put on the cowboy hat and get them first. [MEDIA]
Given the history of that excact coin type, it would increase the value for me. Others may think the opposite:)
Quite enlightening, thank you for sharing!
I think your Licinius is nice, Doug. But I believe that it is not the RIC 208 b type (or rather RIC VI 825), as the mintmark looks like S TR?
Thanks Victor. I need to get Harl, I have seen his book being refered to several times. Does RIC provide you with all that you need when it comes...
Welcome to the forum! I like storytelling too. I wrote this post on the Ides of March last year: «Actually, I was one of Caesars legionaries in...
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