So with my job, two young boys, and school, I simply haven't spent much time really going over coins the last couple of years. Yesterday I got a...
I know, I know, the general public does not know or care about coins, but if they are going to pull out "thirty pieces of silver" on screen, could...
I have been looking to buy sterling, (silverware set most likely). I know when you sell sterling its back of melt due to costs to refine. However,...
Yeah, I know. A lot of you guys like to collect "one" of each coin type. I simply cannot help myself when I see a pretty coin. :) [ATTACH]...
I collect Constantine VII coins because in his reign the first coins I have found with the name Christopher were struck in gold and silver. Well,...
Cleopatra VII, (as the commonly termed Cleopatra is rightfully known), is of course one of the most famous persons from ancient history. She was...
On the world stage, the Goths first appeared around the northern shores of the Black Sea around the second century AD. From there, their...
I have been thinking about this for a while. I go to shows and see some vendors selling bullets made of silver. They do not appear to be...
One of my many pickups the last few months that I haven't had time to share here is something completely unusual for me. It is a gold coin from...
I have been thinking about this coin more recently. I know others here have examples of it. I just purchased this example yesterday due to the...
I picked this one up yesterday for cheap. I was very surprised the auction company didn't mention one tiny little bit of information about this...
I was able to pick this up yesterday. Its a barbaric copy of a byzantine gold piece. Its ex-Dmitry Markov, a world leader in Sogdian coinage and...
I just got a group lot of early Roman copper imperials. For some reason these large chunks of copper, (bronze and brass), just make me feel good....
So I have wanted one of these for quite a while. With my other purchase bombing out, I figured I would splurge on this one. I like it because it...
I have tried to buy these a few times before, and always get Clio'ed. This one was cheap on Ebay so figure why not: [ATTACH] Not the greatest,...
So, no, not my collecting area. I do not collect Greeks, I do not collect this city, or this island, this time period, or anything about this...
I just got a note from my company's broker. They are charging 200% of the exchange minimum margin for any gold or silver trades due to the...
So after the hammering at CNG, I had some hot money in my pocket. A friend showed me this one. As I love Elagabalus relating to the Emessa Stone...
So another Sogdian purchase, (anyone bored yet?). This one is from Bukhara. The ruler is named Vardanzi. A seller had two of these for sale,...
I think TIF has one of these, and I accidentally got a Medusa head coin from a group lot a few months ago so when I saw this coin I thought I...
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