On September 3rd (Today:woot:) 36 BCE, in the Battle of Naulochus, Octavian's right hand man and General, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa defeats Sextus...
I usually like to do themed posts with music or humorous oddities on coins. The rhythm is predictable: I'll post coins that are beaters and...
I came across this coin in an old lot that I received, that was disappointing to say the least, and I'd given up on a year or so ago. I feel that...
I'm not even going to pretend this is a 3rd post testing your knowledge of provincials...I mean, yes that's exactly what this is:wacky: It's a big...
I ran my second Spartan super yesterday (8-10 miles with around 30 obstacles). Don't think the irony of "running a Spartan" isn't lost on me....
Who is that coin that you've been dreaming about? For days, for months or years?? What's that coin on the side, the one that you've been on the...
Why I task myself with the tedious errand of scoping out the bi-annual Salt Lake coin show is mainly due to the little jems I find from the...
I received this AWESOME coin in a lot of Greeks the other day. It checks a ton of my boxes: It's Greek AE, thick, 2 counter marks, has an...
James Bond movies aside, I've really been lost in and loving the cool coins of the island of Sicily. What an amazing history it has. From Greeks...
For all my CT pals, with your super cool 12 Caesars sets...that I don't have (I'll get my Julius Caesar portrait coin yet!), here is my set of...
Obviously, Huey Lewis' epic album not withstanding, sports has been one of, if not, the main driving forces propelling humanity forward, love and...
Here's another magical shape shifting coin that looks different in hand then on my phones screen. When I bought this I thought it looked like...
I'm lost then I'm found. My obverse wears a silly crown. I'm ancient and round. I'm not just some stupid hound in a pound. And I'm posting like a...
I picked up this lil doozy a while ago but he (or should I say "they") got lost in the mail! It has 2 portraits. When I first saw it for sale I...
I just dug out a grip of coins I had yet to, or more accurately been unable to, identify from days passed. It's funny what a difference setting...
To me the coin looks like a shot of the earth from space with strange writing around it. Ancient aliens anyone!? (Queue the pic of the nerd with...
Alright, I've been sitting on this guy since I went to my last coin show...in January! And I just don't trust my IDing (since I cannot read the...
With much excitement over the last couple of months, I've been able to gather a few of the hardest to find (on a po boys budget) classiest,...
I realize that the thread title makes it sound a bit like I'm giving away ancient books, though one was published in 1952 and some of our...
A bit of an obscure reference in the title I'll admit. But still cooler than my original title of "How Rude...Aes!". Anyway, I had been trying...
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