Better than me! I have never completed a "set" in my life, unless you count Byzantine Anonymous Bronzes as a set. I am glad it gives you pleasure...
Some were, but many of these coins were the standard trade coin along the silk road. As such, they traded at bullion value, so we're weighed....
Are you sure yours is not a Shapur II Collect? Looks like it to me, an early issue. Shapur II was the great transitional king. Early in his reign...
I agree at some point there will be "maroon slabs" or something completely resetting the grading scales. There has to be really, for them to...
Btw Aidan, Doug is an excellent coin photographer. He has photographed coins for books. He has a large section of his website dedicated to helping...
All of us "old timers", (and not age but years of collecting), work with new collectors selfishly. We simply want someone else to talk to about...
Its kind of par for the course Doug. I was giving lectures on numismatic literature, Ancient chinese cash, ancient roman coins, at the Iowa...
Sure doesn't look like Diocletian to me. Looks more like the portrait for Valens of another later emperor.
Sorry for the rant, I just got po'ed last night. I think what really set me off was the Coin Vault guys going on and on about the "rarity" of...
Just watching Coin Vault and getting madder and madder. You know, I can understand hustlers. It's NGC that is really making my stomach turn....
Yeah, I always had to use oxyacetylene to solder silver in central air units.
Lol, you too? I haev a local world coin dealer, (unusual, I know), and that poor man never knows what to have me look at. One day a St Gaudens,...
If you want to try, there is a guy who advertises in the Numismatist who restores coins. I hear he does pretty good work, but usually filling...
IDK, any number of things. Jam up in a coin sorter is the first off the top of my head.
I would agree. I believe most people start out collecting their local coins in use, and then change habits only after learning what is available....
Hate to be a buzzkill Steve, but it seems you left off the stereotypical occupation, Accountant/banker. Heck, people assume I am in that...
I am not sure how I feel quite honestly. The mint has never, ever guaranteed a 70. I dislike the idea of people ordering from the mint just to...
Yeah, its only cute while these coins are common. I wonder how funny collectors in 50 years will think he was?
I probably buy more books than anyone here, including dealers. Since this title is long out of print, I simply do not see the benefit of having to...
I do not think silver or gold in any form circulates as a medium of exchange today. MTT might still be made as a bullion item, but doubt highly...
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