I find, as I get older, moving rapidly to that time in one's life where hardware (body) and information processing (brain) becomes increasingly...
I was at my local coin shop yesterday. There are others, but they don't have the stock of world coins and ancients as my favorite shop in Willow...
This coin just arrived today. It is a tetradrachm of, I believe, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, Alexandria. While I have seen numerous tetradrachms of...
From CNN. More archeological news, this time from Gaza. https://www.cnn.com/style/article/gaza-canaanite-goddess-statue-scli-intl-scn/index.html
I just came across this short article from NPR. https://www.npr.org/2022/04/25/1094730176/ancient-egypt-temple-zeus-archaeology
While pawing through Sal's boxes of ancients yesterday, I came across this worn but charming denarius, which, at $79 (after discount - the price...
I thought I'd create a generic thread to post my numerous lion daalders and other Dutch crowns and minors collected over the past four decades. I...
I created a thread on Coin Chat on a French bronze medal commemorating the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, for those of you who might be interested....
[ATTACH] An undated photo of the RMS Lusitania. Note the flags of the UK and the USA. In the past, from time to time, I would visit a favorite...
I found this coin at the bottom of a dresser drawer today. This is one of the first ancients I purchased, and it has been sitting around making...
I came across this really high grade drachm today at Sal's shop. It weighs 4.29 grams. I am considering purchasing it. Sal graciously let me...
At this point in my life, with the ongoing concerns about the pandemic, a depressing world situation, the drought (lowest snow pack in the Sierras...
Back in the early nineties a fairly large number of Spanish colonial cobs and 8 escudos entered the market. These coins came from the wreckage of...
On the face of it, with just a cursory look, it's just another intermediate Athenian owl, part of the huge owl output by the Athenian Mint in the...
This coin might be from the Cuzco Hoard, but I have no documentation. It is a scarcer date, the first date with the proper bust of Charles IV at...
It must be a typographical error. I just came across this listing on Forum for what I thought is a scarce to rare coin, but at $9,999 something...
The coinage of Potosi, Bolivia, in the 1620's can be characterized as crude, very crude. Flans were poor prepared, often with silver of...
While this coin is not a great rarity it is notable that it still has the Kurt Prober envelope. This coin was purchased about six years ago on...
In colonial Brazil, there was a chronic shortage of silver coins. Gold flowed from the placer deposits in abundance, but silver and even copper,...
Here's a bronze that arrived much sooner than anticipated, via FedEx. It is a fairly common coin, coming up frequently at auction and on dealers'...
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