This very dark salvaged cob came to me by that vast market for coins, the wild west so to speak, eBay, last month. As these coins go it is pretty...
For those of you interested in the history of ancient Rome and Carthage, or anyone else for that matter, PBS has re-aired an old episode that...
This is a coin from the 2022 Syrian group posted on eBay last year that I acquired as almost an afterthought. It certainly is crude and in all...
Happy 2023! To maintain my owl addiction, I picked up this slabbed (came this way) owl on eBay on December 26th. In addition to being in nice...
This year has been an active one, to say the least, for me. Again, the purchases have been primarily ancients, with a focus on imitations of...
I came across this article through an email notice that I received a few days ago. This is an old (2012) article that I am sure some have read...
I just saw earlier tonight this interesting segment on the BBC World News about a Roman gold coin, previously thought to be fake is authentic...
Well, better late than never. At least the mission is still in progress. I thought it would be fun to pair up a thaler that I have, from...
Have you ever been a situation where you are looking at a coin that you have been looking for along time, and that you are on the cusp of buying...
Here's a truly mixed bag. This is an antiquity that came out of Roma's E-Sale 100. The hard stone is either jasper or carnelian, probably the...
A retired geologist picked up some shards at an archeological site in Iraq. Here's the story:...
More archeology news from today's Guardian....
So today I photographed an owl that I have owned for several years, patiently waiting for its procrastinating owner to, oh, get on with it! This...
Yet another wrinkle in the illegal trafficking of artifacts:...
Curiously I noticed that one Israeli seller on eBay abruptly shut down his listing, so I suspect this is the dealer the article is referring to....
This is an owl purchased through eBay in April. I've spent some time researching this coin, which is an imitation of the Athenian intermediate...
I am currently working on the late folles of Maurice Tiberius, particularly from the turbulent last year of his reign, year 20. I have posted the...
I just came across this interesting article in the Guardian, about silphium....
As part of my on-again off-again effort to take photos of coins that I have owned for decades, here are a couple of gold coins of Mexico. Here's...
From today's Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/08/i-wept-with-joy-young-director-made-guardian-of-italys-temples-of-paestum...
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