Two examples of Antioch bronzes 1st century AD often cited as a "Biblical" coin because the array of the star in the Ram indicates the...
We have members of our local club who are passionate collectors of circulating paper. Even very few numismatists know how to read the details....
Not exactly. They were printed at the main Bureau of Engraving and Printing (https://www.moneyfactory.gov ) main facility, rather than the Fort...
NO! I know collectors who keep serials such as these. Two in row? No usually unless they are otherwise special, but three and above, are...
Bundesrepublik Deutschland ("West Germany") 1973 Commemorative (reverse) the 500th anniversary of the birth of Copernicus. [ATTACH]
For one thing, they are two academic studies that even today are advanced importantly by amateurs. In this thread, I am keeping to Astronomy and...
I tagged this as the Best Answer. The reason why this was best in my view is that in the Renaissance, there were also books about ancient coins...
I wrote for The Celator for three editors over ten years and the general consensus is that "ancient" coins are anything struck before the Fall of...
Alternately, those depict the Moon in conjuction with the Pleiades. It might have been perceived as an auspicious event. It might just be the...
The Comprehensive Catalog of Military Payment Certificates by Fred Schwan has the information you want.
I got the Schwan catalog from the ANA Library. I see what you mean. It has dates of printing, issuance, and withdrawal.
This image from from a bank in Austin, Texas. A couple of months back, someone posted an image from San Antonio, but I cannot find that now. And...
The MPCs have the years of issue on the face: 661 is the first issue from 1966, for example. There is M*A*S*H episode called "C-Day" about...
World War II Remembered: History in Your Hands—A Numismatic Study by C. Frederick Schwann and Joseph E. Boling (BNR Press, 1995, 842 pages)....
I bought Schwann and Boling World War II Remembered. I still need a copy of Schwann's book on MPCs. (Fine from Ken Hallenbeck at Irving ANA)...
I have one. A silver litra (obol) from 474-443, 0.65 grams. SGCV 929. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I also treated myself to a PDS of Sacagawea 2016 "Code Talkers." The S is proof, of course. They tie in with my interest in cryptography and...
Thursday, I judged the Geography exhibits. Friday was a busy day for me, speaking and then serving on the Best of Show committee. (I exhibited a...
Thursday, I bought a Hungarian 6 Kreutzer billon silver from 1849 for $20. I saw some Military Payment Certificates and some medieval French, but...
We really must not project ourselves on the past. I am not sure that mint workers went home at the end of their shift. In fact, I am pretty sure...
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