Today I added another example of a coin overstruck on an earlier coin, I like these when, and only when, it is possible to identify the coins...
Since I count coins purchased as when they arrive not when they are ordered, I know that now my year 2013 is finished. It is time for some...
Since I have already reprinted my coin catalog for the end of the year, the coins that arrived today will show as the first of 2014. I bought the...
http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/tom-mallon-at-coming-home-hospice-sf/44462 It has come to my attention that Tom Mallon's cancer has...
http://www.tulane.edu/~august/handouts/601cprin.htm I happened upon the above link which has information not easy to find. I can not vouch for...
I would like to thank all of you who chose not to outbid me on the eBay coin that the post office delivered today. I really did not expect to win...
It has been only a couple days short of a month since I got a new coin but the post office came through today and delivered my newest. What is...
I have been working on updating my coin photo pages and make this image to illustrate how changing the lighting angles changes the images. Which...
These are just nice examples of coins I did not have. Some are better than others and some cost a bit more than others but most were bought just...
I bought this coin because it was cheap and an example of a flan weight adjustment - one of my even stranger specialties. When the coin arrived,...
Both of the lesser silver coins I found at the show fall into the category of trying to complete a set that I 'sort of' collect. Neither were...
Another new find directed at a similar Steve coin is my AE30 from Sinope that shares the type with coins of Amisos. I have an Amisos that I...
Tomorrow I will see the dealer with the Sikyon I almost bought last time. If he still has it and if he has nothing better I want more, maybe....
Forgive my intrusion on the US side (I collect ancients) but I need help only a US collector might know. My coin scales stopped working so I...
Septimius Severus denarius - RIC 003 Obv:– IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG, Laureate head right Rev:– LEG I ITAL / TR P COS, Legionary eagle between...
Another coin from the VNA show group is this drachm of Hormazd IV. There have been a lot of his coins on the market lately (I smell a hoard). I...
Among the coins that followed me home from the Virginia Numismatic Association show yesterday were two Parthian drachms. The are in many ways...
For some reason I have a desire to update some of my web pages but have no firm idea on what to do to make them more useful to more people. I was...
I recall someone (here?) asking why a mouse was placed on this coin attributed to Ti. Quinctius, 112-111 BC? I believe I may have an answer...
As mentioned in another thread, Ancient coins frequently show minor errors that would make them very desirable by the standards of modern...
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