I am not aware of any political reasons for test cuts on Athenian owls. I've always thought of them as a practical measure that merchants would...
Funny that this thread appears when it did. I was going to post this Alexandrian tetradrachm later. It's another local coin shop acquisition from...
Nice coins, and it is also nice to see other potential lifetime collectors in the making! I agree, throughout history women, outside the...
I've got to go through my boxes and pull out some ducatons. They are wonderful coins to handle, given their size and design. I did photograph a...
Nice lion daalders and ducaton! That half lion daalder is a lot scarcer than the lion daalder. It seems that the Dutch were in a situation...
The dots on the helmet are decorative. The vast number of archaic owls don't have this feature. I do have one that displays these dots....
Here's a post that I started late last night, but ran out of steam. That is sad news, and yet another marker of an earlier generation of...
Well, as a fallible mortal, often I have fallen into the auction trap, where I bid more than I planned. As I become older, I become more...
That is a very interesting coin. The meaning of the hand can have a wide range of interpretation and symbolism. This is the only ancient that I...
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Thank you all for your comments and excellent coins! I am happy to own this coin and such a good price, but I think the law of averages is a...
That's a lovely coin, Bing, very attractive.
That is very true. Just based on the obverse, I get confused easily, and the reverse can be a challenge as well to distinguish the two kings.
Nice coins! The lion daalder is from West Friesland, and I think the date is 1639, but that could be an 8. That's a super nice ducaton!
Thanks! I also came up with 498, after trying to match the letters with an online list of ancient Greek numbers, but as you say the lettering is...
Thanks for the information. I have a terrible time deciphering the reverse on these coins. I'll make a note. Is there a date between the two...
Nice coin! This is one, a billon tetradrachm of Vologases VI, of the first ancients that I collected, around 40 years ago. It came out of a...
Thank you. I guess I need to frequent the shop more often. I kind of been diverted to buying coins online, to the detriment of my local brick...
Thank you! That's a very nice example, much bolder and with all of the reverse legend! Sal has some old stock, and not all of the prices have...
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