I'm going to be teaching some classes to 6th grade high school students on Ancient History as Shown by Coins. I thought I'd do a comparison on...
I'm looking for a book quote from a book I read many years ago about collecting Roman coins. This had to be during the early 1970's when I was...
Well, I'm guessing based on the Braziian counterstamping of 8 reales to 960 reis crown during the 1810 - 1827? period, that at the very least the...
I recall the traveling shows that the ancients coin dealers used to have. They'd rent a room in a hotel and invite a bunch of us collectors to...
Ontario, Canada, seems a bit far awy for those of us living in the USA? As long as I have to travel internationally, I'd suggest Krakow, Poland....
Can you get the weight of the piece, it's diameter in mm, and photos of both sides?
Regarding coin weights, I believe that better balances would be useful. The cheaper $13 or so scales are not too accurate despite their ability...
Found the flip: It's from Tom Cederlind, lot # 169, silver tetradrachm 26mm 14.41 g. possibly a 2012 or 2013 sale. I'll go by my wt as I was...
One issue is the amount of time required to find decent buys. About a week ago, either here or on "Coin Community" there was an excellent review...
Interestingly just today I just bid on a cheap but beautiful PF-65 Walking Lib half but then the nick in the wing got to me and I phoned in to...
I'll have to photo mine. It's a cleaned unc obverse although reverse is quite nice. I bought it in the early days of Heritage from their 1988...
I'm handy with Corel Photo Paint and if you want I could alter the date of your avatar: the 1794 half cent to make it read 1793?
It's almost enough to make me look at all those SMS and proof sets I bought from non-collectors in the early 1970's to see if any of the pieces...
Very nice coin, I should mention that I bid a lot more than 500 euro for high grade Roman gold and never get anything. In fact I bid a whole lot...
For some reason ancients seem to be extremely hot this year at the NYICS. I saw a sestersius or two that I liked and doubled previous auction...
This past friday, 12/14/18, when I went to the bank they had some silver half dollars. This was a slight dilemma as I normally only collect...
Rarely have I gotten a coin from Ebay that I did not return. The reason was always grading or undisclosed damage. My guess is that with...
Here's one of mine. I don't think I paid much more than the current Ebay price for the NGC-53 graded specimen in the OP (I recall about 2x the...
Thanks, but Aes Graves, and ancient bronze coins in general, are not popular with those who like small, portable, & expensive items. Thus for...
Really I should wait until I have the piece in hand and take my own nice photo like the other ancient collectors but I just won this piece at...
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