Was going to use my "first coin for 2015" but I see thats already in use. :D Or I could have used "first coin received in 2015" since I bought...
Now that I know the post office has finished with me for the year, I'll show my top ten. Overall I am less thrilled than in many years but that...
The last coin I will receive this year came today two days ahead of the eBay predicted date. The post office has been doing well this month....
On Boxing Day, I thought you were supposed to give the postman a gift but here it worked the other way and I got two coins from two different...
The mail carrier graced me again today with a new coin but I have not yet decided if it is what I hoped it was or just an ugly denarius worth...
Today the mail brought three coins and rarely do I get three coins about which I know less. One is a modern Spanish (Philip II????) so it got its...
This coin seems so well centered that it lost all the outside legends and I'm lost where to start with the ID. Comparing to other coins of the...
First to arrive from my recent buying flurry is a tetradrachm of Maximianus from Alexandria with the common Homonoia reverse (Emmitt 4141)....
I was about to post my top ten of 2014 list but had a big weekend on eBay and bought 5 coins including (only) one that may make the ten. Of...
Tonight on the Science Channel was a show (Biblical Conspiracies S1 Ep4) presenting the proposed ID of remains of Judean king Mattatayah Antigonus...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0786868643/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&sr=&qid= I mentioned the availability of this...
I was in a waiting room today and read a very short piece in August 2014 National Geographic about the discovery of a 'contract' document in which...
Other than posting our new coins when they are new, what can we post that might be different? One answer would be to close our eyes and stick a...
Bing bemoaned the lack of activity on CT last night. I spent a good part of last evening repackaging coins and found interest (to me - maybe only...
After often telling us that ancients didn't get their separate area (I was OK with that more than some) CT has given us a separate header. Thanks....
I am in the process of changing the way my collection is stored so I am handling every coin as I write up the new ticket. Most of my coins have...
The Baltimore show provided me with five late Romans of which four are at least half decent. I just buy these because I am an addict and did not...
Sometimes peer pressure pushes us to do something we might not otherwise do. At Baltimore, I saw this coin and thought that some of the CT family...
The Baltimore show provided two Parthian drachms that are very different from each other. One, I may not have identified correctly. For that...
The Baltimore show had quite a large array of Roman Republican coins for sale. I bought three. There were coins worn nearly slick and coins of...
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