This past Sunday the US TV show (CBS) 60 Minutes reran its piece on fake paintings by a particularly skilled worker who recently served a very...
The extremely popular tetradrachms of Athens with Athena and her owl are a great example of a problem we face when collecting. There are...
I am working on a page for my website and need to 'borrow' an image from its copyright holder (the person who took the photo rather than the...
http://www.printsasia.com/book/punchmarked-coinage-of-the-indian-subcontinent-p-l-gupta-t-r-hardaker-9788186786352 The postal carrier just...
I'm on the wagon but placed a minimal bid on this little coin for reasons not extremely clear and having nothing to do with the marketing skills...
The G&N Pecunem also produced a couple small Greek silvers for me. The sale had a lot of nice little coins but I considered the start prices plus...
I received the coin that was holding up posting my series of 101 pages on my favorite coins so now I invite anyone interested in seeing the...
Tonight I finished writing my pages on my 99 and 1/2 favorite ancient coins. I now start on the proofreading. That is always the hard part. I...
Recent posts suggest confusion on why there are so many denominations from so many places and we just don't know how to make sense of them. I say...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_Upper_Canada The above Wikipedia article includes the statement that the 1857 issue of the Bank of Upper...
My two latest coins of Alexandria have a few things in common with most later Alexandrian tetradrachms but both have portrait styles that I found...
My coin show Friday turned up two Republican denarii that really appealed to me. One I bought; the other was left for someone else. I left a...
Akragas cast tooth trias (three sided eagle/crab/four dots). Will trade for ancient/medieval/early modern coins that are 'strange' in some way....
Having several of the base metal versions, I have long wanted one of these cup shaped coins in gold. Actually this is Electrum and I am not...
I just got home from my day at the coin show which means you get bored by the coins that followed me home. Today I brought home fewer than usual...
Whether at a show deciding which coin to buy or at home enjoying the ones that followed me home, I place high value on sharp eyesight. All my...
A recent discussion in the ancient section made me want one of the St. George and dragon crowns. Realizing I am not a condition fan and would not...
I was attracted to this common prutah of Herod Archelaus by the baroque shape and the exceptionally well spiked ram on the obverse prow. The...
Concluding the reports of my Baltimore show finds are two Republicans I did not have before. From 102 BC is a denarius of C.Fabius showing Cybele...
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