Yeah, I never heard why they are not considered tetrastaters or something. The Ptolemaic empire was Greek, so you would think their gold coins...
OP, I do believe our very own supermoderator here @GDJMSP wrote a book on these actually. I would start with Doug if I ever wanted to know about...
Knowing this changes my mind a little. Seems like they bought it as the lower gold coin. So, they are not really out anything since they must have...
Storefront shops are mainly for buying nowadays. Gives non-coin collectors security they are selling grandpas coins to a legitimate business...
So what? You were able to find someone who wanted wood removed, and you provided labor and got to keep the wood. What does that have to do with...
I would report it sir. The German coin will be worth more than the Austria one, and I would let the dealer know they made a mistake. There is a...
Its definitely a surge in physical demand. This surge always creates physical shortages since they were not geared up for that demand. However,...
Same trope trotted out all of the time by the PM pushers. First, PM has not always been valued by humans. It was taught behavior, with the...
OP, I highly recommend reading Warren Esty's excellent essays concerning ancient coins. Bottom line to me is, it can be unique but if there is...
Btw OP, I hope you do not take offense of the questions. I am simply trying to figure them out as well. 6th and 7th century Central Asia is very...
Op, do you have a source why you think these countermarked issues were from the ransom payments? I have quite a few, and in hand their character...
Not a nickel guy really. I would say 65 or 65+ is not out of line. All of these No FS comments bother me a little. Sure, there is a couple of...
Outside of Deferred Comp and 401k, I maybe have 50% in land/rentals, 35% in stocks, 9% cash, and 5% pm. I am not sure since I normally do not...
I would clarify there was not an official US coin valued at 12.5 cents. There were, however, in colonial times one bits that circulated. I have a...
This is the most damning to me. 3 of the 4 7's pictured have the same serif in the front, but the second coin second 7 is off. The same 7 is off...
The first one does look incused date. Is that the deception, they overstrike into the planchet, or is this an optical illusion of photography?
Its nam pla in Thailand. My wife uses it for many dishes. I actually like it in food. If you smell it it literally smells like wet butt, but in...
Sure its not XXI. LRB have this denotation commonly to state its 20 parts copper to one part silver.
Garum and other types of fish sauces were the stereotypical Italian food products during the Roman era. They put fish sauce on EVERYTHING and the...
I agree sir. Yours looks like a vg, the OPs looked like it had much more detail, (hair. lettering, right hand, etc.) Both are coins I would glad...
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