This made me chuckle. I've been collecting ancients for the past 15 years and have so much joy in learning about the cultures and regions that...
Always happy to look into a small niche - Will look them up.
Which is a great opportunity to ask - is demand for key dates, e.g. 1913 5c Buffalo Type 1 starting to decline in the last few years? Because a...
I've been collecting ancients for about 15 years and couldn't agree more. So much access into cultures and history. Although I will likely be...
Please share any thoughts you have on collecting key date US coins as an investment rather that just strictly as a hobby. I am specifically...
Sharing a Drachm from Bruttium that arrived recently. Thank you for the resources - I'm eager to dive into them now that I have some attributing...
Somehow incorporating the void under the display for information is an awesome idea. I've tried using NFC chips that are so small they just reside...
Ah I love those acrylic trays -- I have a few myself. Thanks for sharing the way you organize.
After years of having my coins in flips and acrylic holders I decided to commission these two displays out of mahogany. Now that they are done I...
@Milo W I'm researching a coin from Bruttium myself. Were you able to find any useful online references or did you mostly use books as references?
One of my joys in collecting ancients is learning about the many cultures that shared the human experience. Thank you for sharing!
Looking for other's input and possibly personal experience on this wooden try design that I'm building to display my ancients. This wooden tray...
Thank you. The whole system has been online for a couple of years now but coin attributing has only been popular with this tech for a couple of...
For those of you following this work, I thought you might enjoy a technical problem I had recently when adding an Antiochos VIII tetradrachm to...
Your subject-knowledge is always truly appreciated @Ed Snible -- Thank you!
I have a couple of small Gorgoneion coins from Asia Minor and would love to know more about them and why so many cultures seemingly depicted these...
Wondering if anyone can shed some light on this as the internet is quite cryptic on the topic of why Zeus Oranios appears on some coins and what...
In researching a monogram that appears on a Antiochos VIII I purchased recently I realized we have a tet from the same artist -- which is cool....
I could totally buy that. The elongated Phi with a Lambda placed at it's bottom. I would presume that the A below depicts Antioch?
Antiochos VIII evidently has the moniker 'Grypus' which translates to 'hook nose' which this portrait really depicts well!
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