We are coming up on Walpurgis Night April 30-May 1. It is a Witches' Festival in the Harz Mountains. I met the event when we translated Goethe's...
My first intuition is that these are spinning whorls, stone weights that were used when raw wool was spun by hand into thread.
I followed the link that Cucumbor posted to the thread he started back in 2017. It is impressive. I should have thought to search for that by...
Reading background based on @DonnaML's entry on the coins of Trajan Decius, I found an entry from the University of Michgian Classics Department....
Thanks! I went out online and did some reading: Wikipedia, of course, but also New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia; and via Wayback I found an...
Well, you inspired me to turn that comment into a blog post. See here:...
Yes, my apologies. I thought about that... (If anything, I am an ancients guy. I have not done much with U.S.). You probably googled it. VAM: Van...
Desertgem is absolutely correct. Like several (many?) others here, one of my other hobbies is astronomy. More magnifying power does not make a...
Francoise Velde is an economist with the Federal Reserve of Chicago. Unlike Karl Marx, Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and the other...
Just a note here... I have two pairs of high power "reading" glasses: 2x and 4x for looking. I have two of the hobby-standard Bausch&Lomb 5x...
Thanks! I read more at Wikipedia and Livius. I found this portrait at The Louvre: [ATTACH]...
On their way... I bought five, but after haggling upward with her, she added a sixth to make it come out even again for me. She also sent me a...
Oh, what a surprise. Of course 6 kreuzer would be about like a US silver dime, but the detail was so stunning, that in my head, I re-tariffed it...
Well, everything is closed, or almost everything... We have a currency exchange in a big nearby mall. (I wrote about it for my blog back in 2014....
Thanks, of course, I did not consider that. We have currency shops here, both at malls and at the airport. And, I know that travel agencies also...
If anything post it again in a few years and show us how it well it aged in your sock drawer. Nothing like toning to rescue an over-cleaned coin....
I am not a big collector, but I am a writer; and I have some world banknotes with authors and related subjects. (Bulgaria and Iceland had printing...
Hot damn! ... I'm in love...
Well, her right breast. And all of the glory on the reverse. But, you know, it's just a jpeg of a snapshot... So, I asked. Maybe there was an...
Your AU 55 Quarter seems to have better details than the MS 62 Half. Is it just the images?
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