As this is far outside my areas of expertise or interest, I will offer my opinion. Though apparently dating from 1986, I never knew the term...
[ATTACH] Reading Medieval Coins by Ralph S. Walker, Attic Books, 1979, 40 pp. I found this little book to be very helpful. Medievals are not a...
Ah... Thanks, Seth77. I have a 2x2 to correct.
Thanks! CoinTalk is a great repository of accumulated information presented nicely.
Nice thread. I do not remember how I found Troyez and the great fairs. At the time, my interest was in ancients, as you can tell from the title of...
If you wanted to collect coins of medieval France, you would also need to add Hungarian coins. Robert d'Anjou (1275-1343) was king of Hungary. He...
What is interesting to me is that the Manchu writing was adopted from Arabic writing. But, they changed the orientation (orient... hah! another...
Any tetradrachma. Matthew 17:24-27. The coin in the fish's mouth paid the temple tax for Simon and for Jesus. (The disciple's name was Simon, but...
SIX CAESARS OF THE TRIBUTE PENNY by Michael E. Marotta Sellers of ancient coins push out Roman denarii struck by Tiberius on the theory that...
The Flynn Effect says that the average IQ has been increasing. That may be true. Surely, it seems that long ago, people were pretty easy to marvel...
The December 1987 issue of WORLD COINS (Amos Press), carried Robert Leonard's "A Numismatic Illustration of the Bible." Speaking of the...
Great discussion. Thanks. I "Liked" every post. It was well worth considering. A true collector (one who has "the gene you do not inherit") is...
Slavey Petrov is a criminal. These objects violate every canon of legitimate collecting. Slavey Petrov is an "artist" only in the sense that a...
[ATTACH] A Guide Book of Barber Silver Coins by Q. David Bowers (Foreword by John Frost). Whitman Publishing, 2019. 386+xiii pages. $29.95. A...
For a small book, Curious Currency delivers a lot to think about. You may know that Roman soldiers were paid partially in salt; and that is the...
Pollock lists 14 varieties of pattern "annular" (ring) dollars for 1852. He also lists annular cents for 1850 and 1851. And there are patterns for...
Until about the mid-1980s, I guess, wallets all had change compartments. (Modern version here: [ATTACH] Also, in fact, the dollar coin was not...
I have no idea what "brown luster" is supposed to be. The coin is what it is and despite the negative reactions here, I guess it might be worth...
And not to be a total wet blanket... Let me offer these from WILDWINDS Uranopolis, in Macedonia...
It is true that the ancients believed that the Earth is a sphere and had reasons for that. HOWEVER ... it is not true that the fact that a...
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