Coin collectors are a strange lot. I'm as strange as any. Evidence: My latest coin arrival is a not-so-special falling horseman bronze of...
Ancient coins were struck from dies individually cut by hand without the use of mechanical duplication as is done today. Large issues of coins...
Not Fantasy Football but Fantasy Ancient coins - Play or ignore as you choose: The photo shows the contents of a junk box at your local coin...
One of the neat features of collecting ancient coins is the great variety of things available to collect. One of the less neat features is that...
Every so often a coin follows me home just because I thought it was pretty. I don't especially collect Diocletian and I had others of similar...
At first glance this appears to be a cast fake of the New Hampshire Colonial by William Moulton. The casting seam is obvious around the edges....
Today I presented a short overview on ancient coins as one of the educational programs at the Virginia Numismatic Association Convention. Four...
I have written a review of a forthcoming book, Encyclopedia of Roman Coins II (ERIC II) by Rasiel Suarez which is currently in pre-order status...
Coin collectors are famous for 'flyspecking' or finding minute differences between their coins. They are also famous for prefering coins in good...
Good news and bad news: The Internet Radio show 'The Coin Show' has a segment of potential interest to collectors of ancient or older world coins...
I have seen quite a bit of bad feelings on the South Asian Yahoolist stemming from the release of Krause Publications digital catalogs calling the...
I recently became interested in bull/horseman coins issued by the Shahi kings in Central Asia toward the end of the first millenium AD. They sell...
http://www.britishmuseum.org/system_pages/holding_area/research/rrc/preface.aspx The British Museum has placed online a nice reference for those...
I believe I have posted before about the 36 jar gem case I bought for housing coins too small to fend for themselves in regular trays? I decided...
In my collecting life, whether coins or other things, I have always prefered items that had a purpose when created other than being collected....
Twenty years ago the ancient coin community was rocked by a huge 'hoard' of FAKE diobols (small Greek silvers) that became known as the Black Sea...
I'm looking for suggestions on ways to store very small coins that will allow access, viewing and a degree of security (dropping these on a rug is...
The photo shows 12 coins that 'claim' to be 'ancient Roman coins'. Some are modern fakes, some are ancient in date but less than fully official...
A posting in another venue pointed out to me that some beginners are confused regarding a few points on the rarity of ancient coins: 1. Several...
According to the invoice inside, I bought a little pamphlet Russian Wire Money by Frank A. Lapa in early 1996. At the time I only collected...
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