Steve, This is the first coin (item) I purchased from Münzhandlung Ritter GmbH. They look to be knowledgeable to me (I googled their address and...
The weight of an As varied by location (I am not sure if this is town or a larger area). I have seen weights, pre-devaluation, that range from 260...
I found an (another?) interesting article on ancient coin theft and forgery, see link:...
To go with my cast bar, I bought a book. I have this one in PDF, but in hand is so much better. I hope the reprint is a good one. Garrucci plates...
An Axe head like yours is on my wish list. I have a knife piece and a different axe.[ATTACH][ATTACH] I have a couple of pieces headed my way. I...
I have been looking for a currency bar with markings for a while. I have bid on a few. I have come close to a few and been way low on a few. This...
Can you translate the coin? Is this a two language coin?
Several Roman Republican coins feature goats. I think both of these have been on this site recently. I am not home, so I found a couple of...
Doug, Nice holder. You have the two qualities my Dad said make a good engineer: Cheap Lazy I like your camera and light holders. I have bought a...
Nice coin and interesting experiment. I probably would use a different piece of metal to do reaction studies, but I am an engineer and hate to...
I was doing some reading on coins I have or have on the way and ran across an article uploaded to academia.edu. The site is a place where authors...
While researching the overstrike, I found some interesting information about the Man-Headed Bull, river god. the overstrike is similar to the NAC...
I received two interesting, low weight, RR bronze coins this week. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The coin on the left is a RR Sextans struck over a...
Unless the cost is high, I think the "slabing error" is worth having as a show piece. Only one or two would be plenty for tho.
The METEL PIVS looks ugly, but is not too far from coins of that issue. It could be real, or a "reasonable" fake. Both the obverse and reverse of...
Orfew, do you have a Spock 5 to go with your autograph?[ATTACH]
I do not know if they are in business, but the web domain they used, http://www.helios-numismatik.de/ is available.
I seldom bid in CNG auctions. They have good coins, but the prices also seem high. Today, I broke with tradition and bid on a coin (yes I stole...
I like overstrikes as examples of how older money was repurposed. I have one I posted recently and one on the way. I will post it when it arrives....
Nice coin Doug. I like coins with minting tools. Others must like them also because they command a premium. Your coin has some nice features: all...
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