I finally finished the photos from the show Friday. I know many of you might prefer one very nice coin or 100 uncleaned for the same money but I...
A small local show here had only a couple dealers with ancients but I still managed to leave with a dozen new-old coins. As usual I got home and...
I've never felt the need to use a magnifying glass to look at coins but, as I age, am starting to need help looking at fine details at coin shows...
I usually prefer coins shot on a black background but a friend who sells online prefers white so I threw together this rig. The background light...
Tonight's coin show finds are three AE antoniniani of Gallienus' sole reign. All have something to recommend them and none would be suitable if...
Having shown the best looking coin I got, I'l show the worst two. Once a gorgeous coin is this sestertius of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar issued...
I started working on the photos of the new coins I got at the show Friday. This is the best condition of the coins but the original photo did a...
Today I attended the Virginia Numismatic Assn, show in Fredericksburg and saw the usual crowd of dealers that do Virginia shows. Two of them...
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/bh.html My favorite medieval Asian coins are the bull and horseman jitals. My new page above shows a...
My new web page was posted to introduce a series of coins that are commonly available and commonly ignored. Most collectors who even consider...
After receiving the first completed answer sheet for my recently posted quiz I became aware that question 3-2 was unclear or erroneous so I posted...
[ATTACH] While working on a new page on simple coin photography, I built a very simple rack to hold a camera. It turned out to be very easy and...
Look forward to your post of the "ordinary" coins. My earlier post of Republican denarii I got at the Baltimore show threatened a follow up of...
Some may recall I went to a show at Baltimore and wrote up the experience: http://dougsmith.ancients.info/coinshow2011.html This past weekend was...
A very common medieval coin of Central Asia is the silver jital of Samanta Deva showing a bull and horseman type. I have posted on these before...
Today's mail brought my first LED lightbulb (Hong Kong via eBay) which I will be testing and practicing with before I know if it will replace my...
Ever since I branched out and started collecting old coins that were neither Greek nor Roman, I had been wanting one of these but they tend to...
Sometimes I think dealers intentionally misidentify a few things just to make guys like me think they are getting something. This is one of the...
I have owned a low grade sixpence of Queen Elizabeth I for decades (bottom coin). I'm not sure why I found it appealing so long ago and still do....
Most Roman Republican denarii have abbreviations of the names of the officials responsible for the issue. The ones that do not are termed...
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