Happy Birthday, Sol Invictus December 25 is the birthday of the Roman Sun God, Sol Invictus Dies Natalis Solis Invicti means "the birthday...
This Roman provincial coin was issued at Emesa, Syria during the reign of the emperor Antoninus Pius (AD 138-161). The reverse depicts the...
Please help ID coin/medal in 1950 film "King Solomon's Mines" I watched today the DVD of the 1950 film "King Solomon's Mines" which starred...
Festival of Britain Crown 1951 I recently read the history book Austerity Britain 1945-1951 by by David Kynaston, published in 2008. It was...
[IMG] When I saw this coin on Ebay I had to have it. The figure on the coin looked to me like a movie space alien, and not a friendly one....
I revised my article on these odd coins and here it is again. I managed to obtain some more examples of these coins. In 1949 the San Francisco...
Looks like the Wildwinds ancient coin database is back up. Main: http://www.wildwinds.com Index: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/index.html...
My grandmother was a coin collector and my grandfather gave her a Roosevelt Dimes album for Christmas 1953. One of them put some uncirculated...
ABC News story on kids, collecting, coins Mentions CoinTalk.Com Resurrecting a Tradition: Creating Kid Collectors Collectors Pushing for...
Arab-Byzantine Abd al-Malik Standing Caliph Coin I was looking at Byzantine coins for sale on Ebay and found this one. I knew nothing about it...
What kind of damage is this to the upper rim of the reverse of this coin? [IMG] Julia Mamaea Denarius - Vesta Obverse: Diademed and draped...
Question: What coins circulated in Spain around 1924? I read a novel set in Spain in 1924 where the author mentioned some Spanish coins paid...
This film is unusual in that it used a coin to advertise the film but the coin did not appear in the film itself. This 1979 film starred...
Peru token from 1920: I have had this token since the 1960's. I had originally thought this was a Mexican wedding token, but after looking it...
US Liberty Head 1898 ten-dollar gold coin stars in the 1963 film "Gidget Goes to Rome". This film was made only a couple of years after the US...
"Premium Catalog of Modern Foreign Coins" Published in 1948 "Listing the prices paid for the modern coin issues of over 125 foreign...
I rented a safe deposit box at a local California bank. After filling out the paperwork and accepting the keys, the bank teller gave me a...
[IMG] I bought this coin because the obverse picture looked like a movie or TV space alien. And not a nice one! Click here for coin details...
A real McCarthy-Eisenhower era coin Washington-Carver Commemorative Half Dollar Authorized by the US Congress on September 21, 1951. The...
Coins in an old Movie - The Maltese Falcon (1941) Thanks to DVD technology, it is now possible to "freeze" frames on an old movie. This...
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