In respect to Shanxi's excellent effort to identify these half coins, here are his picks next to the half coins [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
As usual, I am impressed by the quick and detailed answers here on cointalk. 3 out of 4 ID's on these chopped coins is impressive. If some one...
Wouldn't chopping/halving coins, be common practice in any rural/pioneer area that had a change coin shortage? For instance, I have Spanish 8...
I bought a bag of these half coins from Wayne Sayles, a while back. He had them labeled as Circa. 1st Century. I'm just getting started, looking...
Happy Rome Day!
This is a great post. I often lament that people don't pay attention to what their choice of words actually means. I grew up in a family owned...
If anyone is interested in trying to decipher this vellum document, I was able to get new high resolution jpg's and pdf"s on a much better scanner...
Hi Gavin, It would be super of you to try. I will work on taking better pictures this afternoon and send them to you. Thanks
Thanks to those who input. Does anyone know of anyone who might be hired to translate this document?
I never heard of the "hand style" variations. Very interesting.
Okay, I still don't know why two of the pix are sideways. They were not sideways when hit "post reply"
Thanks for all the feedback. By the way, I didn't intened for the pix to be sideways. They looked "not sideways" when I uploaded them. Here are...
Here are pictures of an old vellum document that I picked up form an antique dealer. He has no idea what, where and when this is from. I thought...
I just visited a local dealer who does not specialize in ancients. He showed me his latest acquisition of 8 or 9 bronze imperial roman coins, for...
Thanks to both of you.
[ATTACH] My grand daughter turned 4 years old today. She loves this Russian(?) produced cartoon called "Masha And The Bear" So my wife ordered...
Was that an experiment or were you just bored?
They probably are not gears. Pie Crimpers, not cutters. Or a tool for leather working that marks intervals for where to punch holes for stitches....
[ATTACH] Note the Chi Rho on the reverse. I think that this version is rare or at least seldom seen.
I just watched the trailer and they feature Julius Caesar, but the episode list starts at Marcus Aurelius. Are the seasons going back and forth?
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