tartanhill, Thanks for the feedback :happy:! NGC sent this quality Chinese "Fatman dollar" fake back to me in a body bag :(. I kept the coin as a...
A.D. I have slabbed many high grade coins that I didn't want handled & it's an excellent way to prevent coins from oxidizing as long as the slabs...
I've posted this "hockey puck" before but will post again since it seems to fit in with this thread :happy:. This coin is heavier than most of his...
Constantinople was hit by the Bubonic Plague in the year AD 542 after decimating the populations of Europe. It is often referred to as...
Clavdivs, Don't lose any sleep over it, some of us do have a short fuse on occasion including myself :rolleyes:. Fortunately CT members have short...
I always carry a piece of antique jade as a pocket piece :happy:. The Chinese white jade Bixie from the 17th-18th century pictured below is one of...
I'm afraid "brick & mortar" coin shops are dinosaurs of a bygone era :rolleyes:. They provided a valuable face to face relationship between buyer...
Long before the computer age collectors used to shop for coins at coin & hobby shops, shows that usually included stamp dealers, & through...
Donna, I like the sestertius of Maximinus I, despite the odd looking parallel lines on the reverse. His portrait looks as brutal as everything...
John, You did better than I did :(.
posnerfan_48, Thank you for an interesting an well researched article :happy:. I had no idea the Ryukyu Islands had their own coinage but I'm not...
The dekadrachm was a beauty :D, & signed by Kimon. I could understand someone going crazy for that coin, but $4,080 for an Owl worth $500-700 o_O?
I just watched in disbelief as this Owl from the Paramount Collection sold for $4080.00 :jawdrop:. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I was sent a complimentary catalog over a week ago & have submitted 3 low bids, & if those bids fail I've got 3 more bids to place. [ATTACH] If...
It's amazing how some of these established FAKES keep popping-up from one auction to another :eek:!
Thanks for the link Mat, you do have a nice group of Roman provincial tets. Maybe you can add a Judaean tet to that group some day. The Judaean...
The ancient seaport city of Caesarea Maritima was built by King Herod the Great in circa 22-9 BC. It later became the provincial capital of Roman...
You've got to be a genius to attribute some of these later Parthian coins; so many of them look alike. They are too confusing for me to collect...
Ryro, The image on your Coriosolite stater is most likely Ogmios too ;). The Veneti & Coriosolites both occupied areas of Brittany & our coins...
Ryro, This is an odd but interesting thread :p! Pictured below is a stater from the Veneti tribe in my collection. Not only is the deity on the...
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