Here's an interesting item that arrived today, which I think qualifies as a bonified artifact. This a a piece of hack silver, from the Levant...
My recent experience with shipments from Israel has been around three weeks for delivery, sometimes up to four or five (especially during the...
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I've been buying some coins recently from an Israeli seller, s.c.numismaticandartuser who has some pretty interesting items. He is willing...
Here's my crude, encrusted AE as of Faustina Sr., Aeternitas reverse, with Juno on the reverse, extending her right hand and holding a scepter in...
Obviously "artifact" has been expanded here to include rocks, minerals, fossils, meteorites, etc., anything that is very, very, old. I think this...
This Bactrian tetradrachm of Eukratides, 171-135 BC, has the best depiction of the twins of the ancients that I own. [ATTACH]
Keeping it all in the family, here's a tetradrachm from Antioch, depicting Vespasian and his son, Titus, 69-70 AD, year 2. 13.4 grams [ATTACH]
Beautiful obverse. That is one of the youngest portrayals of Zeus that I have ever seen, not the heavily bearded patriarchal image that one...
Thanks I found an approximate match for your trilobite, online: https://fossilsforsaleuk.co.uk/products/hollardops-sp-4-9-cm-morocco-devonian
An impressive trilobite! Is it from Morocco? Also, do you have information on the giant ammonite? Thanks
Donna, your fossil fish is from the legendary Green River Formation, Wyoming, Eocene Period, around 50 million years old. This location has, for...
I'd leave the coin alone now. Let it tone down over time. This takes patience, but the results should be beneficial.
Ah yes, the connections that we make from one thing to another, a uniquely human process, and a necessary one when viewing the development of...
"Artifacts" are the main theme at my place, including myself. Lake Superior agate, 304.9 grams, 80x35x50mm, estimated to be about 1 billion years...
If I carry around a coin, I make sure that it is in a safety flip, and in my shirt pocket. I like to take the coin out and look at it from time...
Nice photos, Ryro. Taking good pics of bronze coins can be a challenge, much more, I have experienced, than with silver coins, unless they are...
Thank you. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to buy this coin back in the late 1980s, when a group entered the market. Harlan Berk had a...
Nice write-up! I especially like your crab and octopus AE's. The cities of Sicily have, without a doubt, produced some of the most artistic...
The OP coin is a replica, no question. Here's what a genuine example looks like, purchased from CNG many a moon ago. 14.32 grams [ATTACH] If...
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