No, I am not saying that there should be a prohibition on the private ownership of antiquities. What I am saying is that the process of discovery...
Oh yes, very much. They are capable of almost everything, ranging from love, to jealousy, to hatred, to revenge - the whole range of behavior...
Yes, and a provenance is very important. A major problem over the past decade has been the theft of artifacts in Syria, Iraq, Yemen....
Another useful site is https://www.acsearch.info/home.html
Isn't it wonderful, how the ancient Greeks endowed their gods with very human characteristics and emotions as reflected in their mythology and...
I use Google search, using key words, then try to locate identical or nearly identical images. If it is a really exotic or rare coin, I try the...
An interesting analysis. Clearly the dies were used to the point where they were on the verge of complete destruction. Some of the...
Yes, the Roma Auction XIX Auction lots had very strong bids. I was somewhat surprised given our current economic circumstance and raging pandemic.
Hadrian, was one of the more "photogenic" emperors, numismatically speaking. Marcus Aurelius was another such emperor, whose coinage portraits...
Nice! What are the dimensions?
Here's a charming carving of a frog, which served as a weight two millennia ago, this one equaling 1 1/2 shekels. I purchased this artifact from...
"But the Alexandrians, without asking my permission - and once the thing was done I could not undo it - struck a coin with my head on the obverse...
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You're quite right that it does take time, sometimes a long time, to hear back from the USPS after filing a missing/delayed mail inquiry....
Does anyone know if Roma Numismatics is holding the floor auction tomorrow and Friday? The Internet bidding ends in roughly 11 hours.
If you used Paypal or credit card for this purchase, you can file a claim. I think you have 4 or 6 months from the purchase date to file a claim....
That's right. Phocas also issued 30 nummi coins. I forgot...I guess my mind was not focused on Phocas!
Thank you for the bio. I've had some luck, in the past, with bulk lots of Byzantine coins out of auction - a real potluck sometimes.
I think the bottom coin could be from India. There seems to be two Arabic symbols for "1" on the reverse, creating "11" (reignal year?)
I picked up this coin last week for $28.00 on eBay. It is a 3/4 follis, or 30 nummi of Tiberius II (578-582 CE), minted in Nicomedia between...
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