My suburb does an excellent job of plowing the streets and I ended up going in for half a day. Everyone almost fainted that I showed up during a...
[ATTACH] Crusaders, Antioch. Tancred (Regent, 1101-03, 1104-12). Æ Follis (23mm, 4.46g, 6h). Bust of Tancred facing, wearing turban and holding...
[ATTACH] Justinian II is even more interesting than Justinian I. Perhaps he'll be a future piece. If you like Game of Thrones, he's the guy. A...
I'd definitely get John a nice Christmas/birthday present.
Germany is notoriously slow.
The garbage truck slid down the hill earlier. I heard scraping outside and a private plow was doing the street. There's no snow on the radar,...
The White Death is outside, and it's not Nicephorus II (his nickname), although that'd be cooler. Snowwww. Maybe the phantom emperor could clear...
Not yet. Later tonight. At least I don't have to worry about getting home. The dew point is 5 degrees, so it's going to take a while for snow...
Thanks! Whoops, looks like I accidentally uploaded the Anastasius coin with a face cone-flaw, as well.
I had intended to highlight a coin/s, with a writeup geared toward non-ancients collectors, as an occasional, once-in-a-blue moon type of article,...
The Antioch mint had, in my opinion, by far the best portrait of all the mints. I'd like to pick up a VF or XF example, sometime. I think...
That's a shame about the BD. Otherwise, it's much better than the one I had. I wish listings would be more upfront about BD. There was a coin...
[ATTACH] Q. Cassius Longinus, Rome, 55 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.60g). Head of Bonus Eventus (or Genius Populi Romani?) r.; sceptre behind. R/...
I saw that! Let's hope they'll use an inner cardboard mailer on this one. Whenever a coin has that worked-over look, those subtle rosy patches,...
I can't tell too much from the pictures. The Liberty could go either way, but it looks like stable verdigris. Are you talking about toning or...
I haven't bought all that much from him,but I've received fantastic service, and I've been very happy with my purchases.
I have a few ideas: Did you know, that for many centuries, the city of Rome became a wrecked, depopulated, Walking Dead-esque city, and it wasn't...
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