This is my third AR denomination from this series. It was only a couple months ago that I showed the tetradrachm and I had a fourree stater since...
It has been a big day. A tree fell across my driveway so I had to take a break from doing coin things even though the mail just brought me 8 new...
I am worried. I have bought more coins this month than my usual degree of cheapness would suggest should be expected. Most notably, the prices...
I bought this tetradrachm of Alexandria of Diocletian because it was nicer than any I had. It came from eBay (a trusted dealer from whom I have...
It has been a couple months since I got a set of '12 different' coins of Elymais from the back of a Frank Robinson list. After a very little...
Three more from the show with a little comment on what it was that I found interesting enough to make me want the coin: [ATTACH] From the 1st...
While only it is a middle rage coin in terms of price and condition, I really liked this Alexandria tetradrachm. Maximinus was one of the earlier...
Today was the small local club show in Richmond VA. There were 3 or 4 ancient dealers of which I patronized two. As promised, I tried to keep an...
Many of us take the opportunity to buy a better coin to upgrade one in our collection but here is an example of a time this did not work for me....
Today I went to a coin show that I never would attend except it was 5 miles from my home and I was bored. There was one dealer with ancients (he...
I have been wanting one of these for a long time but finding one in my price bracket has not been easy. This one has just about all the faults I...
I'm not real sure why I bought this but it appears there has been a recent hoard of them so it might be a good time to buy one while they are...
Ides asked I post an example of what I considered an underpriced coin. This arrived today after crossing the Atlantic. Postage was $6 but the...
Again this year we drove to visit my mother-in-law in Indiana passing by a coin shop in Kentucky that last year produced one of my Nemausis croc...
This posting is NOT to solicit coins made to be oddly shaped like the Olbia dolphins but regular round format coins that were a bit different than...
They say it never rains but when it pours. When I got home from the Baltimore show I found an envelope from Frank Robinson waiting for me. It...
Tonight's Baltimore coins are not things I usually buy but each had something I liked. First is an as of Antoninus Pius which appealed to me...
Tonight's pair from the Baltimore show are both low grade silver tetradrachms. One is the source now of buyer's remorse. If I had it to do over,...
The Baltimore show also produced these three coins I found appealing. Of the three my favorite is this Crispus from Rome with Roma reverse and...
Today was a very big day for me with the coin show in Baltimore (3 hours away). I spent way more that planned and even got a couple nice coins....
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