A slight correction to the above article. In addition to the 1K face value bags of Morgan/Peace silver dollars sold by the US mint in 1964, it...
Hi Dave M., Thanks for the suggestion. I like your format. I think perhaps I'll try it on a few pages and maybe try the tables for some other...
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Wow, I thought these were worth in the $4 - 5K range. Shortly before I got married in 1998 I was very interested in early Thalers. I found one...
I'm updating my coins and history website from hand coded html to WordPress. The home and map pages I've redone. However all of the detailed...
I may have posted this one here before but here's my earliest AD dated piece. I had a very brief affair with old world thalers before settling...
These 2 I bought a long time ago from a coin dealer: Karl Stephens. This was well before the days of slabbing of foreign coins of any type. The...
Here's one of mine. I used to collect French but gave it up some years ago. I brought photos of this + some of my others pieces to coin shop...
Yep, it's the A for Paris reverse. Mintage was 829,762 pcs, price in VF is 20 euros according to my 2007 issue of Le Franc, but I'd guess you...
Although I just collect foreign coins (Ancients + Latin American Republican or post-colonials), I've always admired the US no stars seated design....
You got these in exchange for a US 1837 no stars dime? Although I collect foreign, the US no stars seated dimes, half dimes, and dollars are very...
Hi Tif & Thanks for the compliment. It's good to know that others appeciate such pieces, even though there is a big temptation these days to just...
What an awesome aureus. Also a very Heroic bust style. I'm having a lot of difficulty in getting anything high quality these days. While I've...
Hi Ancient Joe, Yes, this is apparently the same piece. It's priced to open at 4500 CHF. My tendency is to research something a bit to find...
Thanks Ardatirion, The article was quite helpful. It went into discussion of a several hoards of the Samos electrum coins found and a bit of a...
Years ago I bought a Tiberius portrait sesterius with the Alter at Lugdunum reverse at auction. Isn't this the altar of "Rome & Augustus" at...
I have a sestersius of him: [IMG] It's ex-CNG, ca 2006. They described it as being from a collection owned by someone whose attribution I've...
While the large bronzes of Ptolemaic Egypt of this module are not rare I find them very interesting. The color and metal quality has to do with...
Thanks for your comments and sorry for my delay in posting. Your Lydian trite is really nice & historically very important. Like many, I've been...
More details to follow, I have one of those early "Geometric type" full electrum staters you touched on in your post. I'm still trying to date...
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