One of the reasons I collect coins, and artifacts, is that I want to have the physical contact with the people of the past who used them. For that...
Hindu-Arabic numerals, like what seems to be a "nine" appeared in that part of the world many centuries before their appearance in the West. if it...
Perhaps a "Temple Token". In some places one may not use "money" as a proper offering to the gods so one purchases a token from the priests to...
Considering what the Romans did to the place in 146 BC, it's amazing any of these artifacts survived.
Try 16th century Spanish.
As retired history teacher I cannot but help having them in chronological order from an early Fifth century BC tetradrachma to an 1865 three cent...
I visited the Grand bazaar in Istanbul some years ago and saw many antiquities I would liked to have purchased for my teaching. But I had also...
Is this a British 5 shilling counter stamp of George III?
If I recall correctly some years ago a huge hoard of coins in amphorae were uncovered in Britain by a guy with a metal detector. It was said to be...
That half dime elicits memories from my reading of the history of the American Civil War. In both fictional and non fiction writing about that war...
One of the coin shops I do business with, actually a pawn shop, has the owner with a Colt Cobra .38 on his waist slightly behind his hip. You...
I purchased one of these at a flea market a few years ago. After I determined it to be a fake I tried to find that guy but never saw him again. I...
I find it astounding how the state increasingly wishes to remove from the hands of the people anything it deems to belong only to the state. The...
Must have felt and tasted good as you walked about the Agora looking to make some purchases. Certainly better than Owls.
I have read that the reason for the serrated issues was to show users that the coins were solid silver not plated fouree's . Supposedly saved the...
Oh, yes. The emperors had little interest in the theology of Christianity or probably any theology at all. Arguments among Christians, important...
It has been said, many times, that history is written by the winners, in this case the Christians. The Christian Church blackened the reputation...
I'll watch for your posting there.
You might want to go to Civilwartalk.com website. They have experts on there for all kinds of artifacts from the war.
Wear is your friend. I collect coins that would have circulated in Colonial America. I want my coins to be, and appear to be, well circulated....
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