Australia = Montana when it comes to local dealers. There are very few ancient coins for sale within hundreds of miles. In the 1980's I relied on...
That catalog came out of a time machine! Check the postal date. Was it mailed in 1975?
Okay. I fixed the dead links Ken pointed out to me (in a CoinTalk personal message). Let me know if there are other dead links or sites I failed...
I have a website linking to places to buy ancient coins: http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/dealers.html The important sites are mentioned along...
The Daily Telegraph for Dec. 11, 2015 has an article...
"Physical books are so 20th century ;)" I suppose one could collect pictures of coins, instead of coins. Then you could have a beautiful...
I congratulate Cyrrhus on spending money on books. Books lead to knowledge (if you read them) and knowledge makes coins more interesting.
The people who attend an auction can look at both sides of all the coins in a large lot. If the firm does not picture both sides of all coins (and...
I thought I read recently that vcoins had 23,000 [Edit: corrected in the next post by Ken Dorney to 250,000] members, which I presume means people...
I wonder how many of us are young? If you collect ancient coins and are under 30, let us know.
Here is a small Greek fractional silver from Ephesos with the usual symbols of the city, the bee and stags (stags are associated with Diana, and...
If anyone gets really interested in architectural types, here is an educational page citing some reference works about them:...
Nap, thank you very much for the images and especially the commentary on each.
JBG, that's Marcus Aurelius, not Lucius Verus.
Here is another Caracalla PROFECTIO reverse variety: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] 19 mm. ANTONINVS PIVS AVG BRIT PROFECTIO AVG Struck 213 according to Hill...
Constantine arrives, London mint: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Struck mid 310- late 312 according to RIC (that is, before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge....
Rating surfaces on a 1 to 5 scale is not detailed enough to describe a coin even if it were done well. The MS70 system for US coins has all the...
In the Church calendar this time of year is called "Advent." Advent is "the first season of the Christian church year, leading up to Christmas and...
Mat is right.
I can do the non-Indian subcontinent pieces. I'd guess those are between 2 and 5.
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