This is a nice but common comemmorative, depicting the first known Norwegian coin; the Olav Tryggvarson penny:...
Good observation. Norway has two different versions of the written language; «Norwegian» and «New Norwegian». To make this arrangement even more...
This may be a little bit off topic for a coin site, but I just wanted to mention that there is also such a thing as a Lydian scale in music. You...
Mintage for that one is 1.485.200
Caracalla from Macrianopolis in the middle? To the right a jewish prutah. AE from Syracuse down right, I think. Interesting lot, as you say.
If I was to give advice to someone getting into ancient coins, I would say look for a fairly cheap lot of coins from an auction house. If you buy...
No, not over 100. I would say you should get it for 50 or less. But I'm a cheap skate.
She was quite proud:) Which was nice to see. They have been too distracted with their gadgets. Now that the gadgets are all they've got, they are...
My daughter is 14 on Saturday. She isn't looking forward to it, as she knows there will be few people around her celebrating. Like all other kids...
Leaving her and the population of Rome to their fate with Alaric besieging the city, and running to Ravenna, must have made a very romantic...
Very nice new old dupondius, David. Congratulations. Here's a similar coin to the one of @Ocatarinetabellatchitchix , but from the reign of...
I think this type has been presented already, but here's my example anyway: [ATTACH]
I heard Chuck Norris has been exposed to the Coronavirus. The virus is now in quarantine for a month.
I have thought many times that when I reach your age, I will sell my collection and spend some of the money travelling. Collecting memories is...
I have been listening to a lot of bullion discussions on youtube lately. Although you have to take them with a pinch of salt, as they either sell...
A Roman denarius, Parthicus? That’s nice. Good coin! I was planning a write up on Scaurus myself. Harlan has a great chapter about him with a...
That’s what I thought would happen in 2007-2010 too, because what you say makes the most sense. Instead we got a very hot coin market at that...
China, 10 cash Hu-Peh province 1902-05 [ATTACH]
I expect to collect coins for at least 40-50 more years. I have finally gotten around to making an archive, with expected market value of each...
Finland, but with the signature of a Russian czar. The Finns are stuck between a rock (Russia) and a soft place (Sweden).
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