I have never faulted him for that, and for that reason he should be commended. Maybe my episodes I was watching was not illustrative of his...
His Chinese coins he sells on a fixed price list. Just go to his world coin price list, or the bottom of his auction, and see coins and prices....
I tried listening to him a few times and found him to very much be the unofficial mouthpiece of small investors. He always jumps on bandwagons...
Doug and I will both vouch for Frank. He is a "no frills" dealer but if anything his coins are usually better than I expect. I have a link to...
The problem with silver rounds are: 1. Silver is very easily and cheaply fakeable. Pot metal of the same sg is cheap. 2. There is no...
Its always hard. From my perspective, I know its hard to buy something that you keep going down. BUT, from personal experience I know that trying...
Hmmm, sure smells like a dead cat....
Yeah, I hear you. We are pretty jaded, looking at ancients all of the time. Sometimes it easy to forget that to 99% of the world, ANY ancient coin...
I would reiterate this is a very old Chinese tradition. This is not a slam on the Chinese at all, just an observation from someone who collects...
No you were right. I was going from memory but it was another bronze type dated 1877, these were 1887, my error. Krause is a pretty good source...
You are right, I think I was thinking of the non-king versions of these made a decade earlier. I will have my wife read the date on your coin LOC...
[ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH] Here are a few. The first is a traditional looking coin from Sogdia, the second a kidarite dirhem, and the third a...
You're right, its not God but OTOH Yehud coinage is what we call the series. We simply do not know the names of many bronzes coins in the near...
That is the part of the article I was "ah, I don't know about that". I happen to know that the term "blue bloods" goes back as far as Byzantium....
Silver has long been known for its properties to kill bacteria. However, this is a pretty definitive study that hopefully will pave the way for...
Pretty similar to this book. Like I mentioned earlier, I love his introduction to the Colonial Coinage book he wrote for Whitman. Its worth a read...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/8838910/Silver-the-antibiotic Saw this posted on Coinflation. I wish they would post more articles like this and...
Not the name of a coin, but of God. The coin that these are on are prutot and leptons mainly.
Does it count if I include coins whose native language did not have vowels? Ancient persian and Sogdian did not have vowels, so whatever they...
I am not your age sir, and have the same problem. I think maybe its more too widely varied interests and too much looking at coins to keep track...
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