I like how a few clues can help ID a coin. SC is AD and prow of a ship is BC. Cenurion has a Roman coin reference. I am not sure the timing is...
Great website! My eyes are crossing trying to figure some the counting methods.
looks like an interesting movie I saw a Roman coin when I watched Labyrinth, Season 1, on Amazon Prime. The story begins in medieval France. Eight...
Shipping varies a lot. The large coin was an in person purchase. The scale weights were 20E plus or minus a bit. Other items headed my way are in...
Seems like most of my recent wins have been bronze. [ATTACH] The largest (115 grams) and smallest (1.21 grams) have sea eagle reverses....
The ancient scale weight makers did not make many 9s. Only 21 of the 13,000 scale weights on Pondera are 9. One has no marks indicated, one has Nθ...
Nice coins @kirispupis . I like the elephants and ship's prow. I picked up one, see my post here for more. I wanted another, but the electrons...
I have read that the (western?) scale weight makers used Roman numbers for weights. The folks from the east used Greek letters. Examples of both:...
I picked up an interesting scale weight lot in the recent Leu auction. There were a couple of numbers I have not seen before on scale weights: 17...
I found a couple of Byzantine scale weights. Both use Θ for 9. I was looking for 17 & 27 and will post them separately. [ATTACH] 9 Nomismata = 9...
You can find plenty of Roman and other ancient coins with ships. Most only show the business end (prow or ram) of a war ship. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
There are plenty of ways to define a subset. It makes collecting interesting. One of my subsets is anchors on coins. I have a few and often see...
@Numisnewbiest Thanks for sharing. The blog was posted yesterday, but does not reference where the blogger got the information. It would be...
Great set! I think the coins of Spain would be a good place to start a once a century set of coins. I bought a few unsold lots a few years ago...
This one is not mine, but I saw it while watching an auction. A Centaur, pretty neat. [ATTACH]
I do not collect Roman Provincial Coins and was not aware to the online version. Thanks for sharing. The half a shield coin above is RPC 1,4....
I got an A in the auction. [ATTACH] Bronze Byzantine commercial weight Mark of value - Γ.A, one ounce, and Cross all inside a wreath, 3 dots is...
I am not a big fan of trades, but I have a coin club friend who likes to buy, sell & trade. At the last meeting he showed me one he wanted to...
A lot of half coins arrived this week. Inexpensive coins like these make great hands on show and tell items. One of them was my first Roman coin...
Interesting post @Valentinian. I see different ways to count on scale weights. The last CNG auction had an interesting weight. It was advertised...
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