Here's a post that I started late last night, but ran out of steam. That is sad news, and yet another marker of an earlier generation of...
Well, as a fallible mortal, often I have fallen into the auction trap, where I bid more than I planned. As I become older, I become more...
That is a very interesting coin. The meaning of the hand can have a wide range of interpretation and symbolism. This is the only ancient that I...
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Thank you all for your comments and excellent coins! I am happy to own this coin and such a good price, but I think the law of averages is a...
That's a lovely coin, Bing, very attractive.
That is very true. Just based on the obverse, I get confused easily, and the reverse can be a challenge as well to distinguish the two kings.
Nice coins! The lion daalder is from West Friesland, and I think the date is 1639, but that could be an 8. That's a super nice ducaton!
Thanks! I also came up with 498, after trying to match the letters with an online list of ancient Greek numbers, but as you say the lettering is...
Thanks for the information. I have a terrible time deciphering the reverse on these coins. I'll make a note. Is there a date between the two...
Nice coin! This is one, a billon tetradrachm of Vologases VI, of the first ancients that I collected, around 40 years ago. It came out of a...
Thank you. I guess I need to frequent the shop more often. I kind of been diverted to buying coins online, to the detriment of my local brick...
Thank you! That's a very nice example, much bolder and with all of the reverse legend! Sal has some old stock, and not all of the prices have...
Is this long enough? [ATTACH] Next: Any coin depicting a ruler or emperor who appears with and without a beard.
While pawing through Sal's boxes of ancients yesterday, I came across this worn but charming denarius, which, at $79 (after discount - the price...
So much of the color of a coin depends on lighting when photographed. With flash: [ATTACH] Without flash, which is much closer to the coin's...
True, it is on the heavy-handed side, but such was the nature of propaganda medals, posters and other media back then. I remember seeing...
Here's a tetradrachm that's worn but has fairly colorful toning, from Pamphylia, Side, circa 205-100 BC. This coin has the anchor countermark,...
Judging from the photo I agree that the coin was cleaned, but not unduly (no hairlines or scratches that I can see). The strike looks...
I thought I'd create a generic thread to post my numerous lion daalders and other Dutch crowns and minors collected over the past four decades. I...
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