Counterfeiting was invented the day after money was invented.
It is too bad that the emperors of the late Third century did not have the likes of Livy, Suetonous, Plutarch, or Tacitus to write of their lives...
I wonder if any of those people, the cashier, the president or the holder got caught up in the violence plaguing that region in 1857?
My link in the chain that stretches from antiquity to eternity.
Here is an interesting, 'what if' and R.B. Taney. In early 1861, before the fighting broke out there were all kinds of legal and political...
That we humans are ephemeral and transitory, but coins have many, many lives.
Parakalow!
That's George III on there. At a NJ historic site I visited about a year ago they had some coins they had dug up on the property with a metal...
How does one differentiate, on a coin, between barley and wheat?
A Maroneia tri obol is a rare coin. They just don't show up that frequently, especially in this condition. Good move on your part to post it, both...
Venice was a Byzantine outpost until well into the Middle Ages. it is not surprising that the Byzantine coinage would be imitated by the Venetians...
I opened that article. Thanks for that information.
Thank you for that chart and yes I would very much like to see the whole of it when you can conveniently do that. Thanks again.
Reading about these "Eastern European Imitation Denarii", an area I had almost no knowledge of, has been fascinating. Those sites recommended were...
Thanks for all your advice and information. I took my apparatus with me back to the shop and we did a specific gravity test on the coin. It came...
I'd like to ask the guy to have it certified. How does one send away a coin to be so certified and, I guess, slabbed, at the same time. I have...
The top image looks pretty much like the one he says is the imitation coin. That's why I asked him. It looked pretty much like any other run of...
I stopped at my local coin shop today. He has for sale what is described on the envelope as an "Eastern European Republic Denarius". It does not...
The double headed coin may be a pseudo-autonomous bronze from Pergamum. issued in the early First century AD. They have personifications of Rome...
If I do that how do I get the picture from the phone to this page?
Separate names with a comma.
