I haven’t posted many coins lately but this little owl coin spoke to me at the Danbury Connecticut show. The coin looks like several from a recent...
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39409754 Apparently somebody has stolen the big gold coin from the Bode museum. I took photos of the coin...
This Larissa coin spoke to me at the Willimantic coin show. It has a wonderful appearance in hand which is almost captured in the photo. Please...
We found a couple nice ancient coins at the Willamantic CT Coin Show this weekend.:) This first coin has been on my want list for a long time....
Numismatic gifts always hold a special place in my collection. Every time that I inspect this 2016 secret Santa coin, I like it more & more. I...
It’s mid-week so here’s a fun pile-on thread. Please post your coins that are in someway thick (3D) and possibly difficult to store. I can start...
I remember some years ago seeing a wonderful Dansco 7070 owned by our CoinTalk member @The_Cave_Troll. Every coin in the collection included a...
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2017/01/19/obama-this-was-the-scariest-night-of-my-presidency/21658369/ I hope the link works. It describes the...
That’s right. All these ancient things basically have the same punch mark. The mark says “copy” or “copie”. A few weeks back I invested $6.50...
These are my favorite 6 of 2016. I’d like to post my favorite 16 of 2016 but I don’t think I’ve purchased quite that much good material. I’d like...
Here’s a pile-on thread for election day in the US. We shan’t discuss politics in this thread but perhaps some of you would like to share your...
It’s the weekend & I thought we might start a fun thread. Please post some coins with retrograde letters so folks (like me) can learn something...
As a high school freshman (40 years ago) we used to surf at Moonlight beach in Encinitas California. One day some very large aquatic animals...
Sometimes you have some coins that just beg to be displayed together. Here are a couple coins of Rome minted long before Augustus. IMHO these...
[ATTACH] SICILY, Gela AR Tetradrachm 480 - 475 B.C. 17.18 gms, 25-26 mm Obv: Charioteer driving walking biga right, Nike flying above,...
You may have recently seen this little coin posted by JA and offered in the weekly auction. I thought for sure it would receive some aggressive...
Click the photo- [ATTACH][ATTACH] CILICIA, Tarsos AR Stater of Datames 378 – 372 B.C. 10.21 grams, 22 mm Obv: Facing Female bust (Arethusa?) Rev:...
The ancient Greek City State of Tarsus was located about 10 km in from the Mediterranean coast in the ancient region of Cilicia. This ancient...
From the ancient Greek city state of Rome......... The coin: :) [ATTACH] The coin label: Roman Republic AR Quadrigatus 225 – 215 B.C. 6.22 gms,...
Here’s a big chunky crab tetradrachm that recently crawled into my collection. :)[ATTACH] SICILY, Akragas. AR Tetradrachm. 472-420 B.C. 16.88...
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