It's grape season here and although not enough to make amphorae of wine, it's nicely complimented by a stater from Soloi. The variety is called...
I recently got mine in album. Much easier to view than flipping through coin holders! [ATTACH]
Another way to look at it, knowing the metal composition can help create 'fingerprint' database for certain coins. For instance Caesar's gold...
If you don't hold it, you don't own it!
Sanskrit doesn't have a script of its own, the ancient vedas told in Sanskrit were latter written in the Nagari script, like how English and...
I'd love to own this coin, currently in British Museum though :( An impaled decapitated Thrax with a bird picking his eyes and a worm borrowing...
I actually weighed it, 5 kg!
I got a new coin album from Renniks. So far I had my coins in 2x2 and other folders, but I've always wanted to put together an album consisting...
7 Send your coins to Mars, [ATTACH] To me this dusty penny beats anything on Earth on the coolness factor! (until at least more coins are sent...
I only have his imitations![ATTACH]
Here's my Japanese trifecta![ATTACH] Gold Meiji 2 BU-BAN-KIN, EDO (1868 - 1869), 3.08g. Silver Ansei 1 SHU-GIN Isshu Gin, EDO (1853 - 1865), 2g....
My little parliament! [ATTACH]
I too prefer the reverse side of these coins, much better than the bust of the royals![ATTACH]
Some relevant coins, Seljuks of Rum, Kaykhusraw I ibn Qilij Arslan 1192–1196 AD [ATTACH] Manuel I Komnenos 1143-1180 AD [ATTACH] Jatavarman...
While most people (family/friends/fellow collectors) whom happen to come across your collection may find it cool and curious, there are certain...
To me it's the heft, this gold nugget is barely half the size of a penny, but weighs 3.6g. It feels non-intuitive to hold something tiny so dense!...
I assume the tendrils on Athena's helmet resembling the alphabet Pi.
This is my first owl tet I got for really cheap thanks to the horn silvering, after a while I treated it with sodium thiosulfate, and I was...
So, basically fiat currency?!
I feel regret that a coin I was watching had sold, but also kinda feel a relief that I don't have to save money and buy that coin anymore, and...
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