Interesting coin. The ANA magazine had a writeup of these not long ago. Qatabian coins are much rarer than Sabean and Himyarite successors. I...
At first glance i didn't like the style of the reverse. I am still wondering if the coin might be authentic but stripped, tooled, and repatinated....
Yeah, I did the math and it's not worth it imho either. Selling at NYINC will raise the price, but I cannot see them bring that. Honestly, I would...
If you need more coins per ounce, I agree with older gold. Go for things like French 20 or 10 Francs. A 20 Franc is about a fifth of an ounce, and...
I agree with Steve. Most ancient collectors will not know of anything so new. Most of us stop around 1453, with many stopping at 500 ad.
Mine is simply a coin from the Lanna Kingdom in northern Thailand, about 1300 AD. My wife is from northern Thailand, and I have started a...
I think people were simply commenting on how many investors always do the wrong thing. This trend is so common as to be one of my most important...
Yes sir, I am "lucky" I worked 50 hours a week and paid my own way through college, I am "lucky" I paid $50k for my graduate degree, and I am...
Dang Longnine, am I feeling weird today or is it you? I completely agree with your post in every way. In fact, I have written similar on here as...
Btw, there is a beard there too, just harder to make out. Look at his chin, that is the beard protruding that far out, not the actual chin. :)
I would agree with this. Its close for me, but I see two tiny spots it looks like they are merged, but it is very close.
Another problem with a half silver, half gold WL half, (besides the fact there are none other known, and the US mint has never struck a coin like...
Most everyone else here do not know that. ;)
His coin looks Ummayid.
Nope, no such thing as too many coins. I have found ancients literally everywhere in my house, having no idea how they got there. Still, not "too...
I agree. Economic prosperity has time and again been shown to be a function of good governmental policies, (fair court system, IP rights,...
It shouldn't be that way sir. Numismatists should properly use the term improperly cleaned, but life being like it is, many just use the term...
Numismatically, what most people mean by a cleaned coin is IMPROPERLY cleaned. A properly cleaned coin will have no trace it was ever cleaned. An...
And when Doug means tiny fraction, he means we make like $100 million a year in seignorage and we overspend our income by like a trillion. The...
Relating to Arab Sassanian coins, they really didn't abstract the head much. When the Arabs took over a couple of things were happening. One,...
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