That's very interesting. I wonder how this weight was used in relationship to the stater, especially in Athens, where most of the coinage was in...
Thank you. Perhaps it not terribly important to attribute to a Starr group. I've just been looking at similar coins through CoinArchives.com,...
Pompeii has some stunning examples as well: [IMG]
I still have dreams about visiting coin shops in London, but of course dreams being what they are, things are wacky and out of place, and it...
I remember Manfra, Tordella & Brookes, although I didn't buy any coins from them. All sorts of establishments sold coins back then. In Detroit,...
After receiving Chester Starr's book on Athenian coinage, I started going through the owls, and came across another coin that I think falls into a...
The stuff of William Shakespeare! That's a stunning example.
Another work, more or less covering the same period, and from different perspectives, is Last of the Amazons by Steven Pressfield. His style of...
Thank you for posting this thread. This is a period of Roman history that I have, at best, just a general understanding of. The Bull from the...
Has anyone else noticed that the 80 drachmae seems to have two portrait styles, one that is rather flat and crude, and the other higher relief and...
I wish I had the wherewithal and time to visit the coin shops in London. My sister lives there, but during my visits to her in the 1980's and...
Do you still have the Saturday Charing Cross coin market? I was there in 2017, but it took quite a search to find it, located in an empty floor...
Having read Bullfinch's Mythology is an admirable accomplishment! Having lived in New York and having access to the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
It is really hard to locate an example with even minimal detail that doesn't cost big bucks. It seems that these coins, the 80 and 40 drachmae,...
The coin shop, like so many other retailers (JC Penny bankruptcy, Macy's on the brink, Sears gone) has been the victim of rapidly advancing...
I just went to the Roma Numismatics website and checked for lot #858 of the current auction. Apparently it has been removed - "Lot does not exist".
With the shelter in place still in effect, at least where I live, and having a lot of time to actually use my brain, something that has been a...
I just sent a message to Alice regarding this lot, with a link to this tread. Hopefully I hear back tomorrow.
Thank you for the correction. I will change the label to Anastasius. I hope to have the coin out of the "hospital" in a few weeks. I will post...
You certainly went through the school of hard knocks with these large lots of hoard coins. That Barbaric Constans bronze is really nice, so ,...
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