I know this is straying far from the discussion, a very informative one, by the way, on cast coins of the Ming Dynasty, but I thought I might as...
This is a small black variegated nephrite fu lion that I purchased from a Canadian dealer earlier this year. The period could be late Ming or...
Love 'em, warts and all!
I see... At first I thought this thread was about wasabi sauce! I have some coins with this characteristic, but, being slothful by nature, I'll...
The shekel weight idea is my own. It could possibly been used in some other capacity. I have no doubts about the object's provenance. The...
It's true that local shops get foot traffic and phone calls of people inquiring about that old coin collection left by Uncle Harry, but there has...
I can only speculate that heating, folding and restriking was an expedient measure to speed up the minting process. Why they would do this to...
I agree - the later profile eye and rare heterogeneous styles are often overlooked by collectors in favor of the archaic styles. I think this is...
The frog weighs 183.9 grams. I was off on the shekel calculation. According to one website, factsanddetails.com, a shekel in Mesopotamia was...
I agree. Basically it's the march of "progress", for better or worse. My original thought is that the pandemic is acting as an accelerant in...
That's very interesting. I wonder how this weight was used in relationship to the stater, especially in Athens, where most of the coinage was in...
Thank you. Perhaps it not terribly important to attribute to a Starr group. I've just been looking at similar coins through CoinArchives.com,...
Pompeii has some stunning examples as well: [IMG]
I still have dreams about visiting coin shops in London, but of course dreams being what they are, things are wacky and out of place, and it...
I remember Manfra, Tordella & Brookes, although I didn't buy any coins from them. All sorts of establishments sold coins back then. In Detroit,...
After receiving Chester Starr's book on Athenian coinage, I started going through the owls, and came across another coin that I think falls into a...
The stuff of William Shakespeare! That's a stunning example.
Another work, more or less covering the same period, and from different perspectives, is Last of the Amazons by Steven Pressfield. His style of...
Thank you for posting this thread. This is a period of Roman history that I have, at best, just a general understanding of. The Bull from the...
Has anyone else noticed that the 80 drachmae seems to have two portrait styles, one that is rather flat and crude, and the other higher relief and...
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