Hmmm, sure smells like a dead cat....
Yeah, I hear you. We are pretty jaded, looking at ancients all of the time. Sometimes it easy to forget that to 99% of the world, ANY ancient coin...
I would reiterate this is a very old Chinese tradition. This is not a slam on the Chinese at all, just an observation from someone who collects...
No you were right. I was going from memory but it was another bronze type dated 1877, these were 1887, my error. Krause is a pretty good source...
You are right, I think I was thinking of the non-king versions of these made a decade earlier. I will have my wife read the date on your coin LOC...
[ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH] Here are a few. The first is a traditional looking coin from Sogdia, the second a kidarite dirhem, and the third a...
You're right, its not God but OTOH Yehud coinage is what we call the series. We simply do not know the names of many bronzes coins in the near...
That is the part of the article I was "ah, I don't know about that". I happen to know that the term "blue bloods" goes back as far as Byzantium....
Silver has long been known for its properties to kill bacteria. However, this is a pretty definitive study that hopefully will pave the way for...
Pretty similar to this book. Like I mentioned earlier, I love his introduction to the Colonial Coinage book he wrote for Whitman. Its worth a read...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/8838910/Silver-the-antibiotic Saw this posted on Coinflation. I wish they would post more articles like this and...
Not the name of a coin, but of God. The coin that these are on are prutot and leptons mainly.
Does it count if I include coins whose native language did not have vowels? Ancient persian and Sogdian did not have vowels, so whatever they...
I am not your age sir, and have the same problem. I think maybe its more too widely varied interests and too much looking at coins to keep track...
Lol, I cannot even get my wife or kids to conform to my will, let alone the world. :)
I agree. The devil is always in the details as well, meaning was this "cost" fully costed or incremental costs? A mine will continue producing as...
Lol, it would be a heck of a trick. Its longstanding tax law, (from the very beginning I believe), that time is never tax deductible. Unless you...
Off hand looks like a 2 Att from 1877 but I can clarify later when I get home. One and two Att were fairly common issues, with the 4 Att being...
Fun thread Matt. I think there will be more of this in the future. I find Ebay and the internet was more widely dispersed ancients, since many...
Exactly. What many people do not "get" is they lost the money the instant the market dropped. If the market drops from $30 to $25, then they sell...
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