Doug, I wrote an article about the plated Owls for The Celator, which is why I have the quote from Crawford, "Plated Coin / False Coin." It was...
It might be unusual for American coins, of course, but in Confessions of a Numismatic Fanatic, Frank Robinson says that any active collector of...
In a footnote to his Thompson festschrift contribution, Buttrey refers to the famous paper about Roman fourees by M. H. Crawford, “Plated Coins,...
Very nice coin. Welcome aboard. Here's my Trajan. Note that Andres2 posted a complete set representing The Five Good Emperors. It was the...
Hey! You know what happens to people who speak ill of the gods...
It is one of my favorite series of coins. The towns of Mytilene and Lesbos had an agreement to issue electrum in alternate years. First of all, of...
With an interest in the town of Kyrene as a result of following the career of Eratosthenes, who measured the circumference of the Earth, this was...
You need to re-work your arithmetic. At 146 cents to the pound, for coins that are 95% copper, the break point is $1.53 or $1.54 (in round...
Generally, the drachmon was the day's pay for a soldier in the field, a citizen at assembly, or a rower on a galley.
At the 2017 Emergency Management Conference in San Antonio, I met several free market weather forecasting services. They are amazingly accurate....
Computerized coin grading has been worked on for at least 25 years. Facial recognition software is now more accurate than humans looking at other...
My degrees are also in criminology. In addition, I judge our regional science fairs. And, when I worked at Coin World 1999-2000, we also had a...
I did not want to clip the entirety of the Wikipedia articles, but Athens and Sparta each had hundreds of allied cities.
Until 1962 cents were 95% copper and 5% tin and zinc. From 1962-1982, they were 95% copper and 5% zinc. 1982 was the year in which the alloy...
It is not illegal to deface money unless it is done with intent to defraud. You cannot change ONE DIME to ONE DOLLAR and attempt to pass it off....
... not exactly a bar ... [ATTACH] ANA Heath Literary Award 1st place. [ATTACH] (2nd place bronze has the same Obverse as the 1st)
I like silver art bars because they supply empirical evidence of flows of money that are overlooked even by advocates for open markets in banking....
You know, you do not need to limit yourself to Athens. A little research goes a long way. Do you live near a university with a library? HUNDREDS...
The International Association of Silver Art Collectors (IASAC) was conceived over talks at the kitchen table of Steve and Agnes Rood in January...
The coins are pretty, no doubt about it. Polls of collectors show that Canada is widely collected in the USA. But that is a very distant second or...
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