Nice coin! Very numismatic. If I had to say where my interest in ancients began, where I walked through the threshold and entered, it would be the...
I thought about that when I created the thread. And I do have a couple of "others" myself. For that matter, the definition of "ancient" includes...
Thanks! The UT Libraries have it in their Briscoe Center archives for in-house reading only. I have to go there later this week for other work....
Ancient Joe's "Parameters for Your Collection" alluded to an interesting problem. "A recent trend in US coins has been more minimalist,...
Great topic thread. I really appreciate the history. We say that coins were the newspapers of the Roman empire and this really demonstrates that.
Sources Books Fischer, Ernest G. Robert Potter: Founder of the Texas Navy. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing, 1976. Hill. Jim Dan. The Texas...
Just one out of two-and-a-quarter billion (2,244,007,320).
Thanks, PaddyManI followed the link off the link and read about the Broighter Hoard find. Just asking, though... what do the two stars represent?
Although Republic of Texas “red backs” are well-known to collectors, the pay warrants for the Texian navy and marines are truly scarce. I bought...
None. I could probably ask them all and write a magazine article about it. And, of course, for many important details that define varieties and...
OK, I found it: http://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?pubId=382 But I am completely blown away. How did you track that down? Page 2 "G. I....
It is very nice. Perfect ones by our standards today are hard to find. It is in the production. They knew what they were doing and could have made...
Looking at it again, I can accept that. Thanks.
All I know for French coins is Monnaies féodales de France, Three Volumes by Faustin Poey d'Avant. It is an antique work, long out of print. I...
Way cool.
Printed by the Chung Hwa Book Co., Ltd. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Anton Hansen Tammsaare (1878 – 1940), was an Estonian writer whose pentalogy Truth...
I agree that Carothers is important though from the viewpoint of theoretical numismatics. He does offer good history.
A Guide Book of The United States Mint: Colonial, State, Private, Territorial, and Federal Coining Facilitiesby Q. David Bowers; Foreword by Ken...
The back of the note shows people reading.To Krupho scholieo means the secret (hidden) school. [ATTACH] Rigas Feraios or Rhegas Pheraeos,(1757...
The first ones up top are pretty easy. These are a bit more obscure... Sándor Petőfi (1823 - 1849) was a Hungarian poet and liberal...
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