...I'm too cheap to pay $99 for it. Now that the sale is over can anyone tell me why I thought the ICG slabbed coin was 'special'? In this case,...
Yes, he bought another one. Actually the last five coins I bought were Falling Horsemen. This is a FH2 of the subtype where the 'sitting'...
[ATTACH] Specifically, I'd like to know the meaning of the marks/characters in the right field and what was missing at the left. Was the incuse...
I was not planning to post this until tomorrow but another thread provided the information that Steve would not see it if I waited so here goes:...
Getting down to the last couple of my recent additions, I offer this hard to photograph (looks better in hand as they say) AE3 of Procopius. His...
Another new addition this week is a Judaean AE Prutah issued by Procurator Pontius Pilate infamous for his role in the crucifixion of Christ....
...but not Constantinian. These two AE4's came together, like father and son. One is Magnus Maximus from Aquileia while the other is (his son)...
When I returned home from Indiana today not only did I have the coins I bought there but the mailman had some waiting here so I'm really behind on...
Just about exactly 50 years after I first bought an ancient in a coin store in Indianapolis, I returned to the same town but a different store...
http://www.delanceyplace.com/index.php Each day I get an email with an excerpt from a book selected to remind me how little (occasionally how...
Today I played with the latest effort to find lighting that will work reasonably well with more coins rather than having to customize what I do...
Every time I buy Chinese cash I ask myself why I feel I need more since I hardly understand anything about the specialize hobby that collecting...
On another list I read there is a discussion about rare Tribute Pennies of Tiberius. We all know that Tribute Pennies are not rare but how many...
I had a chance to upgrade my old example of this Pantikapaion 4rd century BC bronze with countermark star and bowcase over Pan and lion/sturgeon...
There are coins that are easy to love and coins that require fitting a collector in a way that most collectors would not understand. I know one...
I originally posted this as a reply to Valentinian's call for comments on his new page of unique reverses but immediately realized that I had...
#7 of my 8 auction winnings is posted here for viewing by those who did not see it in its other outing. I was hoping a specialist would explain...
Tonight's auction win was actually not sold in the sale but appeared on the unsold list at a price I accepted. I assume the coin lost appeal due...
My collection includes only two coins of Persis, both added this year. Persis was a puppet state of the Parthian Empire most famous for the fact...
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/aurelian.html It has been a long time since I posted a page on Aurelian but my auction winnings...
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