Thanks! I am sorry that I did not see this earlier when I was searching here for information about the Medieval Hand Heller. I just completed a...
I just met another numismatist through an astronomy discussion board. In fact, I am working on an article about the similarities in the two...
I got started in numismatics late in life, just over 40. I knew about inflation and hard money as a teen from reading conservative political...
My snarky comments aside, I agree and I have also paid more for bullion items that I liked. Mostly, they were private issues from corporations...
Well, OK... the 2019 is much better... And looking again at the 2020, I realized that she is not being attacked by the French Rooster: it is the...
A little on the buxom side of reality, don't you think? I mean, maybe if she was dirndled up or something, but you just want to hand the woman a...
I highly recommend The Second World Wars by Victor Davis Hanson. The premise is compelling. During the 1930s and into the 1940s, several...
The ANA Numismatist has one entry for "Hall am Kocher." It is in an article from February 1961 by Dr. John Davenport: "European States Issuing...
Yes, Pat Heller is the entrepreneur emeritus and past president of Liberty Coins. I bought the coins from Liberty. That article is on their...
I bought a dozen of them from Liberty Coins to give as Christmas presents. I was a little taken aback by the lack of information in the flips....
Thanks. I really appreciate the nods, kudos, and well wishes. This board has long been a community for me. I look to you all for knowledge,...
Think that the two hobbies appeal to people who work well alone, as much as we enjoy others. Both reward observation, of course, but also detailed...
Pretty much the same for me. Made up my mind to search for it no matter what and there it was. I have seen the Beehive Cluster and Ptolemy's...
Astronomy. I just packed away my Celestron 130 EQ 5-1/4 inch Newtonian reflector with equatorial mount. I have been using a National Geographic 70...
Oh, come on, how big was it really?;)
I dunno... It's complicated. I think that one determinant for money is that it be used in calculation. Ritual exchange for social bonding precedes...
I have a dozen messages like this one on my phone, different wording, same begging. And, just where is this 5X match supposed to come from? To me,...
[ATTACH] "Johns Hopkins retained the collection for many years and the coins were studied by many numismatic luminaries who visited the...
I'm sorry but I do not understand the question. What is "the level of 'advancement' of the operant demographic"? What is the "operant...
I believe that it was in Francoise Velde's Big Problem of Small Change, but I remember reading that Roman bronze circulated in some places in...
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