Personally I think you are better sticking to full ounce coins if it has to be modern. They are by far the most common size, as well as the most...
Both Ukraine, (russia huge miner), and indonesia I heard. Nickel is a very useful metal, I thinking hoarding current five cent pieces is not the...
Or, have been copied so many times we are not sure what the original said. I do not know of a single ancient book that survived intact. All we...
Good questions all. My input for Doug would be even though natural electrum was found in local streams, its clear from Sardis that even from the...
A good book on the subject, from a numismatic perspective, is King Croesus' Gold, Excavations at Sardis. My library is packed up of I would list...
I thought Areich was Amanda.
That comment applies to almost all uncleaned coins. The diggers and buyers are very adept at sorting out these. If you want to clean coins for fun...
Dang it Doug, you beat me to it. Yes, I have seen references shoowing touchstones recovered in ancient sites. In fact, in a coupke of cases they...
That would be a coin of Kyrene. One side will have a head of Libya, the other the head of Ptolemy. The Ptolemaic empire ruled Kyrene for a while....
Yeah, but Vahran V types, (the famous Bahram Gur), are very close to early Peroz types. So its a fine point. I assumed Peroz since they are 20...
Lots of people like to sell nefarious "proto-currency". I never buy anything unless its well documented. Chinese "things" are also sold many times...
#3 and #5 are Ardashir, the founder of the Sassanid dynasty. #4 I believe is Peroz. I would agree with the others that the Ardashir coins are cast...
I agree the guy is completely full of himself. There ARE high quality fakes, but his notes are crap. I saw immediately just from the portrait his...
Is it just me, or does this also strike anyone else as looking similar to Sabean/Himyarite? It could be just the nature of derivative coins. If...
"Back in the day" such a miscut would actually lower the value. Notes used to be graded based upon margins, with equal margins being the most...
I agree it looks like a local copy. They even tried to copy the dimple Ptolemaic coins used, but the dimple on this one is not correct either.
Mean and average are very different, as are mean incomes and household incomes. I thought US mean household incomes was around the forties, but I...
For the low level of a living standard, that might be true. For all of those who look fondly at such "good old days", spend some time looking at...
So does that prove paper money is just as usable as pm? If they pay you the same value today as "the time they used real money", (whatever the...
Btw, sorry about calling you a kid. No offense meant. From your post I was just guessing you might be around twenty, but even then I shouldn't...
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