Thanks! I was thinking of such control marks on Medieval coins. It is one thing to have your name on the front page of a scandal, but another to...
Which ones? I mean, really, even the communication we accept here as "plaintext" is really just a code. And we all know DEF FID IND IMP and all...
You need a dictionary of ancient Greek. And you need to put that into a context of historical philology to understand how words change over time....
You are wrong because you fall into the fallacy of the unnamed collective. Who are "the ancients"? Many people were alive at every time and place....
(1) We do not know. That is the easy answer. Often, we just project ourselves onto the past. Even today, most people believe that barter in farm...
That's right! Fred Flintstone did not count to 10. He counted "1, 2, Many" until about 5000 BCE when larger numbers were invented. As for China,...
You got a lot of good replies. Just to note, however, the most recent research says that people did not evolve money from barter and they did not...
An expert's intuitive grasp is more reliable than so-called "scientific" measurements. I am reading Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. It opens with the...
Keeping looking! https://www.money.org/uploads/treasures/TreasuresPDF.pdf Pocket change is how Kevin Flynn and John Wexler got started! (But any...
In my opinion (since you asked), you should not buy the coin. Instead of spending small sums on low grade coins, you should learn more so that you...
Sorry to read that you traded it away for the very low grade (Poor 2) V Nickel. You should not be buying coins until you get a Red Book. Consider...
Myself, I accept that even in our 5-megapixel world, pictures are not the same thing as holding the coin. I like worn coins, too. They speak of...
Well... now I know. Tombac is one of the few Indonesian loan-words in English. It is 5% to 20% zinc or with other metals and mostly copper....
A long time ago, Boy Scouts working on a merit badge were told to "brighten" their cents with a pencil eraser. In the 1980s, third party grading...
Like all collecting, my interest in bullion is by theme. I am a writer. I learned to fly. I value the philosophers who advanced individualism. It...
Then you might enjoy Charles Babbage Codebreaker https://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2018/11/charles-babbage-codebreaker.html Variations on...
If you want more than this short answer, we should create a General Topic for "Morality and Ethics." Obviously, with no other people around, you...
See the US Mint sales pages for special medals and medallions here....
During World War II, Canada included a patriotic message on its 5-cent coins: We win when we work willingly. The slogan was in Morse code, flush...
Again, my thanks. I found listings for the Waters book, published by Seaby. In fact, I find that Arthur W. Waters was a 19th century numismatist....
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