The full financial breakdown will take time, around 2 years I believe, but I've already seen people start selling (or trying to sell) useless junk...
I still buy coins/antiquities too, but rarely at retail before and certainly nowhere close to retail now! If you feel vulnerable like me then...
Well Pepe, I've been anxious about those same perceived stormclouds since January. I honestly expected the stock market to crash on the Monday...
Maybe oldfinecollector was making an unrefined but accurate point about right now clearly being a buyers market for fun but functionality...
The last international purchase I dared making was shipped from Austria March 5th and went completely dark until the 31st, I had already assumed...
Do you use special blades or those pictured in the provided link? I have gobs of xacto hobby cutting/carving tool handles and hundreds of blades...
Ah, far superior pictures and indeed better than my own abilities would permit even if I hadn't left my camera 1000 miles away! As suspected,...
Honestly I don't believe that there is much chance of cleaning your coin any further, the pictures suggest to me that the brass/bronze is eroded...
Great coin, that simple, graceful, quintessentially Celtic semi-abstracted rendering of the horse really is nice for such an unusually small...
The decision whether or not to continue depends on just how good the offer for it is. Judging from the exposed portion it looks like with some TLC...
Personally, the varied Æ issues of Justinian are supremely interesting because of not only their wide variety, generally impressive size and...
Hah, yes indeed that's a good observation. My Greek Cypriot friend would have similar qualms with the Turkish oversight of cultural resources in...
There is little to zero religious, cultural, or ethnic continuity between the ancient Carthaginians and Greeks or later Romans and the modern...
That's a great large example, very nice thanks for sharing! Those larger denominations are hard to find and a silver nugget coin approaching 100...
Font is all wrong, and the fields are too flat which makes the piece appear to have been pressed, not hammer-struck.
#2 and 1 are awesome, thanks for sharing! Can you tell us the weight and diameter of the Manuel I trachy? Is that a larger flank than usual for...
Aside from some friends who I've successfully encouraged to pull silver and other interesting coins from circulation only 1 has started actively...
It's a gnarly bronze of Kassander (Cassander), one of Alexander the Great's diadochi. That era of history is extremely complex and interesting and...
As TIF suggested, the transliteration of the visible part of the ethnic on the reverse, THES, is the key to unlocking the origins of your 2nd-1st...
Great Axumite coin, I believe that many of their silver coins were made using a somewhat debased alloy so a crust of dirt and copper salts may be...
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