I found it, in my own library. I bought and read it in 2019. One good thing about aging is that one's short term memory loss makes it possible to...
Who is the author?
Speaking of money which was a unit of account but never actually coined is the US Mill, 1/10 of a cent, a unit used in calculating real estate...
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Why did the US drop the half cent in 1857? Why did the UK drop the farthing? Why no one lira coin at the time Italy adopted the Euro?
Off the clock mint worker.
Thanks. I had sent these images to another site and that is what he concluded as well.
You must have a very loving and appreciative family.
I have always had trouble with the Ptolemaic tetradrachms of Hellenistic Egypt, that is telling them apart. One of these four below is definitely...
From the shape of the planchet I think it may possibly be a Commodus or a late Aurelius'.
The Flavians normally struck their coins in high relief. They wear very well.
And how many Frenchmen are concerned about that? My guess is not too many and I think this may be applied, mutatis mutandis, to the average Roman....
A funny little story here about an incident at an airport in a Mediterranean country some years ago. I purchased an object at a local emporium,...
Do what I did more than 60 years ago. Buy a few good books (google " books an Ancient Greek and Roman Coins", find a shop that has ancient coins...
Porosity is very common in these coins and one which did not have any would be suspect in my mind. The coin appears genuine to me and in nice...
No hard feelings here, just a sense of loss at what I thought was a wonderful community of coin collectors helping each other to learn more about...
I joined about two months ago and have posted several articles there.
I may get bounced or banned from this site for writing this but in the hope that something positive for the site and those who post here may come...
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