An old and kind of stupid joke: Q: what do you call an Italian astronaut? A: a specimen. Didn't get It? Good. There's hope for you yet.
Indeed. Maybe one day. See prior note about how my taste and budget often fail to intersect. ;)
Good question. Just don't suggest he try buying any ancient coins. He'd most assuredly end up with fakes.
Wonder how many other little small details in ancient coin designs have backstories that are lost to us - or, at times, overlooked by us. Guess...
Hey, at least it's a CircCam! I suspected it would be in the "junkbox" pricerange, but think it's neat, all the same. File it under "cool...
Back to China, to give me an excuse to post this recent addition. China (Republic): silver yuan ("Junk dollar"), Year 23 (1934); Sun-Yat Sen and...
Neat. I like that Probus.
Nice. If I win the one in the FSR auction, I'll try to shoot some better pix.
ISIS in Palmyra is but a tiny, recent, short hiccup in the turbulence of history. There were Crusaders, Mongols, and all sorts of other...
Now you're getting into a very interesting line of thought, which I've long wondered about myself. I would imagine 95-99+% of the ancient coins...
It's a mind-blowing concept, for sure, but some coins survived even more centuries than that, in choice Mint State.
Looks pretty similar to the one I'm bidding on.
Oho! I just discovered the tie-in between the titles of this thread and that song!
Yep. Good. Gotta love that trombone. Funny, I first heard Ska referenced by young Gen-X hipster types, and always assumed it was a more modern...
Stunning as usual, DR. Gonna get me a Judaean coin for the Eclectic Box one of these days. Maybe Bar Kokhba or somethin', if I can find...
Interesting! I never considered the possibility of a magnetic ancient/medieval coin, and would never have thought to check that. I of course...
Dunno 'bout that one so much - it's OK - but that video alone was worth the price of admission.
Neat. A Parthian coin is on my short-term "to do" list for additions to the Eclectic Box. I expect I'll be adding one by this summer, most...
I like it. I'll have to go to Wikipedia to discern how to draw the line between Ska and Reggae. Maybe start a Pandora channel or two to sample...
PS - now, after reading over the subsequent posts and seeing the hammer price, I am not surpised at all by the outcome.
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