Glad I encouraged some purchases of half-priced books. Personally, I missed the email announcement until several hours into the sale. By then, the...
For less high level overview "reading" on Greek coins, I'd recommend Jenkins "Greek Coins" or Kraay "Archaic and Classical Greek Coins". For...
Numismatic booksellers Kolbe and Fanning are having a 50% off sale currently, so a good time to buy any of these books that might be in their...
Looking at the OP photo, the mintmark looks like P* to me, rather than V*. @dougsmit , is it clearly a V in hand?
I totally missed the Strangelove pun!
My reply was based solely on the dates contained in Alegandron's attribution. If those dates are correct, then I don't see the connection to the...
@Sallent and @Alegandron , I never said the siglos wasn't in circulation during Alexander's time. It likely was. I said the siglos probably was...
@Alegandron :Isn't that siglos just a bit too early for defending against Alexander the Great (336-323 BC)?
I picked-off this pachyderm in a recent auction: [ATTACH]
This is why me posting the price I paid is meaningless. I may have overpaid, or I may have underpaid. How would you know the difference? The...
@Insider : Being cordial to one another does not make us great friends, it makes us friendly. I'm relatively new here and I've never met most of...
Thanks for all your kind comments. As an American, the challenge of collecting Aes Grave is the import restrictions adopted by the U.S state...
@rrdenarius it's a bit tough to tell from your photo, but is your libral As the scarcer variety that has no value mark beneath the neck?
It does feel awesome in hand @chrsmat71 .
Here's an example from Sidon - note the sigma iota beneath the chair and sigma in the reverse left field. Not lifetime. This one likely struck by...
Thanks, Nick. I recall you've got a nice Aes Grave too.
This monstrous bronze arrived today. It's now the largest bronze in my collection. ROME. The Republic. 225-217 BC. AE Aes Grave As (256.29 grams;...
"Cabinet" toning is the characteristic toning that silver coins acquire after spending many years in a coin cabinet. To me this means that the...
Well done! I assumed CNG only got the stuff the ANS didn't want. I say that because two coins I bought in the CNG eSale came with RBW envelopes...
What a terrible loss! I was the victim of a home buglary about 10 years ago. In my case, everything was recovered. I wish the same for this victim.
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