Do you happen to know if the Barbarians are speaking in modern High German or some re-created ancient dialect of Germanic peoples?
I collect in other areas than ancients and have seen and handled many of these pieces. There are so many, many fakes of these coins that extreme...
What the US Government did in 1964 was to lie through its teeth about the introduction of the clad coinage coming into circulation in 1965. They...
Short answer is that we don't know for sure what that coin was called and despite what you might have read we are not really certain the the new...
Excellent observations.
Good observations.
The Roman and the Greeks, at least of the Hellenistic period, were putting inscriptions, verbal text on their coins, for whatever reasons they...
You may be right about the literacy part. Other than Rome, Athens, Alexandria, Antioch and Carthage, literacy was likely to be more aspirational...
Thanks for that very inclusive response, especially the evolving scenario.
Yes, Roman coins started out pretty simple and only gradually became grandiose with the writing so perhaps all coinage goes through some kind of...
Yes, it may have something to do with real persons being on the coins and using them as self promoting bombast, something the early Greeks did not...
I was perusing my collection the other day when I noticed something I had not thought about before. My Greek coins had great pictorial...
Perhaps people hoarded silver coins rather than brass because if the bottom fell out they would retain intrinsic value, especially relative to the...
Look to your left.
Yes, that is a Qoppa beneath Pegasus. The weight is 8.6 grams and has a diameter of 22mm. I must admit that I find these Corinthian Colts among my...
There does seem evidence of plating, not at all a rare occurrence at the time. If its weight is less than 3.0 grams I would suspect it to be a...
Anyone with one of the Corinthian staters, including those of her colonies, has a three drachma coin as their staters were of three drachmas...
Near Philly.
Thanks. I have bought from him , a very reputable dealer in ancients. I did not know he also dealt in medievals.
I guess I am hesitant to buy or sell using the mails to buy or sell from folks i don't know, especially after reading the "you might get ripped...
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