Okay, here’s the companion piece for the 1840 Unitarian Peso [see my comment this thread, May 30th]. The Unitarians and the Federalists were...
That has never worked for me. While a US collector I was always treated pretty nastily by the coin dealers, maybe that's why I moved to foreign...
Well, the earlier sestersii were around 28 grams, later declining to 20 grams around the time of Commodus I think. Eventually I think they may...
Thanks, I've gotten fond of large coins. My only heavier one is my Aes Graves As which is 258 grams. This one just beat out my medallion of...
My newest acquisition & sadly, my only ancient so far in 2014! [IMG] Egypt, Ptolemy II (r. 283 - 246 BCE), AE-47, 98.1 grams Supposedly these...
Don't know if these are my favorites but recently picked up the following 2 Latin American coins. [IMG] Argentina Province of Buenos Aires, 8...
well I save them but I guess us older people are too adicted to coins and thus save everything. Right now I think they're just worth around 3...
This is actually a very interesting and important question. As we all know these critters were .925 fine silver and quite large. Don't have the...
Actually I was in Rome & the rest of Italy in 2005. Most of the Roman coins I saw seemed genuine. I'll always regret not buying one of those...
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