Just one more question: What forms should I request? Thanks
Thank you, Al. This shipment went through Express Mail, Canada, so I guess that I need to request the forms from them? I have queried Athena...
Thank you. Are these forms provided by US Customs? The letter does not mention them. Is there an email address or a website to upload the forms?
Thank you, Al. What paperwork does this entail? I don't have an export certificate from Canada, nor do I have precise provenance information...
This coin is a Qataban tetradrachm from the area of Southern Arabia. Whether that includes Yemen or parts of Saudi Arabia, I'm not exactly sure....
I just received a letter from US Customs and Border Protection, informing me that an ancient coin that I ordered from Athena Numismatics, Canada,...
Thank you. It's always fun to locate owls that are out of the ordinary, even if they do have issues. The subject of how they circulated and were...
Two more tetradrachms came in today, one long overdue from Germany and the other very rapidly from Tennessee. The owl from Germany is a classical...
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Nice acquisition! Congratulations.
A beautiful coin! Yes, prices for this type of shekel, while always quite high, generally, seem to be shooting up over the past few years....
Nice coin! Actually 1823 was the first year of republican "hookneck" 8 reales production at the Mexico City Mint.
One other option, or arrow in your quiver, to to ask for a price reduction. I was the second highest bidder in an auction a few years ago....
I sent a tetradrachm back to Roma a year or so as a possible fourré. There was one area that I was suspicious about, but wasn't sure, since the...
I do, when the opportunity presents itself, like to acquire exceedingly rare literary works by very obscure authors of the early 20th century....
A very interesting coin! I think it is an imitation. The style of the figures and their headdresses on the obverse look quite un-Byzantine.
At least, with ancient coins, the number of countermarks that a coin can have is more or less limited by the size of the flan. In more modern...
Wonderful write-up, and ambitious, given the breadth and scope of the subject. It is a good idea to do this in parts, after all, when you're...
Here's one more countermarked tetradrachm. This coin appears to have a Phoenician W (waw) on the obverse. The countermark was punched...
Hi Donna First, I just want to mention that I am not an expert on counterstamps or countermarks. Actually, I am much closer to a "rank...
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