I just stumbled onto this thread which is hilarious because I just bought myself a little treat of 10 uncleaned coins for $10 to see if I could...
Once I finish all of these bad boys, then I plan on doing the Chicago Coin Expo thread of my neat little buys from there.
Hello All, In order to keep making myself more insane and keep everyone busy in the meantime, I am working on another Greek coin. This time I...
It's cool your help TIF made this happen in the first place.
So I am seeing the coin as Dioshieron, Lydia in the link to the auction. Is the other name a magistrate I am guessing? There is no reference to...
Wow, it's like Christmas, go to bed and wake up to presents! I am glad that I am not the only one who was stumped by this. I honestly don't know...
Lol who is that!
Bookmarked. I can't look through any more cities though tonight. I need at least a pointer in the right direction. It's been frustrating to say...
Well, there were the Bactrians and then there were the Indo-Scythians. Similar styles, but the Indo-Scythians kind of had a more "Eastern" look...
[ATTACH] This is one of my favorites. His hair cut very much says "high school gym teacher" to me for some reason. [ATTACH] And here he just...
....as in Azes II, of the Indo-Scythian Kingdom! Lol, I think. It's been a long couple of hours of looking at Greek coins. BASILEWS BASILEWN...
Yes, I thought it could be a Magistrate name, but since I did not have much else to go on I knocked my head around trying to see if I could come...
[ATTACH] So I have been trying to figure out what in the name of the Lord this is for about an hour now. It is in pretty good shape actually, but...
Thank you for your help!
Hello All, I have been rattling around the Seleucid pages on WW and Forvm for a while trying to make sense of these two coins. I would guess...
Yes, Chicago Coin Expo = Chicago International Coin Fair (CICF) which specializes in world and ancient.
I don't buy any high dollar stuff but I really found some great additions for my collection. As usual I poked around in row boxes and the usual...
I love all of those coins. Great pics and from what you mentioned, nice job being patient as time and bad auction pics did their part to bring...
Yes before it was the cultural center it was the library and Grand Army of the Republic Memorial. If you looked around the top of the GAR room...
I was a little delirious from looking at coins all day when I wrote my message late last night. I just looked at it now and it looks a little...
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