Silphium? From Cyrene?
It is a medieval penny (denier) from the County of Blois in modern France. I do not own the coin. I found the image while buying coins from...
I hate to flog a dead goat, but I went Wildwinds and found 12 examples. Cn. Plancius AR Denarius. 3.98 g. (Seller erechtheion no metrics)...
Congratulations! You seem to have some game... a couple of games, actually... anything else in your spare time? What you say about NGC is...
Aside from another First Place Heath Award just as a nod to my good work, I guess I would need a Third Place to complete the set. Second Place...
[ATTACH] Pictures of a Distant Country: Seeing America Through Private Money by Richard Doty (Whitman, 2013, 296 pages, $24.95) is an oversized...
The entire series is called "JIMs" for Japanese Invasion Money. They made these currencies for their occupied territories including The...
I have two of these, both off-center. This is the better example: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Marcus Porcius Cato was one of the republicans who resisted...
(This is based on an article that I wrote in 2004 for The Celator.) Collectors of ancient Greek coins know the silver-plated (“fouree” or...
I read once in a Celator article that the horns of the Cretan goat were the "horns of plenty" or cornucopia, filled with fruits and grains. Also,...
Thanks, DesertGem! Yes, we all have many resources that we often do not think of. When I was enrolled at a community college, they had a...
Wow! I am impressed. That is a lot of work to recover a piece of history. Thanks for sharing. These notes are all very attractive and the style...
I would have taken the CAL quarter eagle as a right answer. That is exactly the kind of hidden little detail that makes the quiz bowl fun, when...
The question assumed that a "country" had the first perfectly round coins. In fact, it was the private Soho Mint that invented the coining press...
Your local library is your gateway to a world of resources. Too often, collectors go to their local library and say that they have nothing, maybe...
Bruiser, I see from your profile that you are a Show Me kind of guy. I have an old friend who lives so deep into the country that he walks his own...
This has been discussed at length often. Put "artificial toning" in the Search Box for Titles Only and you will get 30 hits. And more is in the...
This morning's CNN Tech Gallery. The NASA Curiosity Rover uses this for calibration. (I should have known it was posted here at least twice...
Grading Coins by Photographs is a speciality book. The author, Q. David Bowers, is called "the dean of U.S. Numismatics" for a reason. We all see...
Like most clubs, we had one or two members who were way ahead of the crowd and they just sat back and let the others go for it, unless there was a...
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