German States (Teutonic Order): silver 1/4-thaler of Grand Master Maximilian of Austria, ca. 1615 [IMG] Obverse: continuous legend: MAXIMIL: DG:...
Medieval Croatia (Ragusa): silver grosso portraying St. Blasius and Christ, ca. 1372-1438 [IMG] Obverse: S BLASIVS RAGVSII, Saint Blasius...
Netherlands (Gelderland): "St. John" type gold gulden (florin) of Arnold van Egmond, ca. 1423-1472 [IMG] [IMG] Obverse: St. John the Baptist,...
England (Anglo-Saxon): silver penny of Aethelred II, struck ca. 997-1003 AD [IMG] [IMG] Obverse: bust of Aethered II facing left. Reverse: Long...
In 2013, I did another big purge and sold off pretty much all of my old collections, rolling them into the present "Eclectic Box of 20" which I am...
Ancient Byzantine Empire: gold tremissis of Justinian I, ca. 527-565 AD [IMG] [IMG] Obverse: D N IVSTINIANVS P P AVI, pearl diademed, draped,...
Ancient Roman Empire: silver denarius of Septimius Severus, "Dea Caelestis" type, ca. 193-211 AD [IMG] [IMG] Obverse: SEVERVS PIVS AVG,...
Ancient Roman Empire: orichalcum sestertius of Hadrian, 134-138 AD, ex-Boston Museum of Fine Arts [IMG] Obverse: HADRIANVS AVG COS III P P,...
(Newer thread here.) [IMG] Obverse: DIVVS AVGVSTVS VESPASIANVS, laureate head right. Reverse: two Capricorns supporting shield inscribed S C,...
Roman Republic: silver denarius of moneyer L. Furius Brocchus; Ceres and curule chair, ca. 63 BC [IMG] NGC Ch VF; Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5....
Greece (Kingdom of Macedon): silver "Mercenaries" drachm of King Perseus, ca. 175-170 BC [IMG] NGC Ch MS; Strike 5/5, Surface 5/5. Additional...
Greetings, CT colleagues. Happy Thanksgiving! This week, I will celebrate my 40th anniversary as a collector. On Thanksgiving Day, November...
Just some activity from the past few months. New or new-ish additions to the Box of 20, though I have not yet had time to do the Herculean...
(The French Louis XV jeton previous listed here sold - fast - on Collectors Universe... in less than an hour and a half! But here are a few other...
This World War I trench art love token on a French franc cost me $37.03, so I posted it in the "post your purchase under $50" thread. But I...
Please click here, and thanks for looking. I am selling most of my better love tokens and rolling the proceeds into my Box of 20. There are a...
Here is my long awaited new purchase. [ATTACH] Here is the cert page. Here is an interesting (and seemingly independent) blog post about this...
[IMG] Welcome to Numismatic Gladiator! Basically, you challenge someone to a cheap coin challenge. Each of you buys one coin from the...
Step 1: purchase an ancient Roman bronze As. Step 2: put the coin in your pocket. Step 3: go to work, and approach everyone you see, and say,...
(This thread may be slightly off-topic initially, but should become coin-related fairly soon.) Other people have posted "unboxing" threads like...
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