Niall Ferguson is, according to the jacket copy, "one of Britain's most renowned historians." So I started reading his book The Ascent of Money...
Very interesting theory - I like it! I looked through my small, low-grade Gallienus collection and found a similar (Christian?) cross - but on an...
Nice catch, Bing. I too waited to get one of these, and found one on eBay on the cheap that has some virtues and some vices. I wish Perseus...
Interesting post - I thought Sparta only used giant chunks of iron for currency. I'm learning stuff every day.
Nice to see This is very interesting. A while back I posted what I believe is this same (Palestine?) countermark. I had not encountered...
Nice batch of Parthians you got there, DBDc80. Doug does have a point - Parthia was very conservative in their choice of designs for the drachms....
Fakes of the lower-end common/worn type do indeed exist. Three are below. The Hadrian as is particularly convincing if you take a poor photo of...
Eight semesters of Latin, high school and college. And this is about it: Semper Ubi Sub Ubi: "Always wear underwear." (Always where under...
Thank you for this very thorough clarification of something that has been puzzling me for a while. This was very helpful.
Maximinus Thrax often has a little smile: [ATTACH]
I watched that clip on YouTube and was laughing so hard last night I scared the cat. But(t) it is spelt with two Gs - Biggus. Or is that BIGGVS?...
Well, there's always Monty Python's Life of Brian take on Latin names...not sure of the historical accuracy, but it is pretty funny. [ATTACH]...
That's a really good question, Bing. I've been wondering it myself. And what about nicknames? Did anybody every call him, to his face,...
Wow - I am intrigued. Those are countermarks on both sides? I found a bee countermarks:...
Lots of good collecting advice here - I always like reading these posts about how/what to collect. They clarify my own murky thinking on the...
Coool coin - you might check out my original post tacked on to an even older post of John Anthony's - it is sort of lost in "World Coins"...
Actually, I buy misattributed coins all the time off eBay - it is a way to find good stuff cheap. At least it seems like good stuff to me. Here...
Thank you, THCoins - my ignorance of both Indian history and Indian numismatics is showing! I really appreciate your help with this. I'd been...
Actually, my first coin of 2019 was somewhat misattributed. This was a $10 "buy it now" on eBay listed as Macedonia, Pella. The legend didn't...
Nice find, Maridvnvm - a while back this was mis-attributed AE, said to be a Commodus as, came up on eBay. It is a hard-to-photo coin, but I was...
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