[ATTACH] [ATTACH] The coin on the upper left is from Constantinople. Upper right is either Constantinople or Theupolis; the broad face is seen...
It is not often that governments commission an artist like Saint-Gaudens to design the coinage. President Theodore Roosevelt explicitly...
I heard some years back that some of these were melted but I can't find the source any more. I have two of these Iceland 2000 gold coins and can...
Constans II 641-668 AD contemplated moving the capital from Constantinople to Syracuse. During his reign Egypt was lost, and the relative...
I have previously posted an anepigraphic Solidus of Constantius II as Caesar. It was minted in Nicomedia around 325-6 AD according to my notes....
The obvious starting point. I would then move on to the @Tejas collection since that is how my interests run.
Nice coin, @panzerman! Rare to see one of these with both sides well struck. The peculiar way these coins were made can muddle the excellent die...
My first coin was a half penny from Great Britain worn almost smooth and dated in the 1860’s. But the first coin I purchased at a show was this...
Brava, brava, brava. Thank you, Donna. I do not have sufficient thumbs to give you the thumbs up that this post deserves.
People have been finding caches of precious metal coins for millennia. Most discoveries went right to the local village goldsmith to be melted....
Thanks. Here are most of the rest of them. We did put one of them to its original use when our children were baptized. The priest used one of...
In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s Scandinavian silversmiths drew on earlier styles and motifs to create archaic-appearing silver pieces. Some...
@Alegandron, good use of coins to reinforce your history lesson. And I am reminded of the Roman saying, “Homo homini lupus est”. Though saying...
Constans II in his early days. His reign was sufficiently long that his portrait changes over time. [ATTACH] Constans II 641-668 AD. Solidi of...
Sold our unimproved land for precisely that reason. Not sure what property taxes were like back in Twain’s day, but i suspect both taxes and...
This coin was sold by Stack’s in NYC on October 20, 1960 for $45. Thirty years later it changed hands for $800. I wonder what price it would...
Have not found a good comprehensive site explaining the pointe system, but what I was able to discover suggests the Louis XII ecu d’or above was...
My nearest in space and time, ecu d’or au soleil of Louis XII, 1498-1515. I believe the punch mark is intentional to denote the mint, but I don’t...
The preponderance of my collection is late Roman and Byzantine from Constantius II till the end of the empire’s coinage. Closely linked to that...
Most excavated coins have been melted. Most struck coins have been circulated to a frazzle, lost, mutilated, or recoined. A few nobles,...
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