Thanks. The reason I asked is that I started collecting coins several decades ago and this was one of my earlier coins. I recently started going...
I am trying to find out how Athenian Owls of the mid Fifth Century BC are priced, specifically the approximately 8.5 gram didrachma. I can find...
Where I live, on the East Coast, the local pawn shop owner and one of his employees carry handguns. Signs outside his store require that sun...
Having been collecting coins for several decades I am well aware of the pitfalls of "cleaning" coins but I have a problem that may be amenable to...
Thank you. The article was quite interesting.
I'd buy it if the price had been a reasonable one as it is a good portrait.
I don't know if you are aware of this but in Greek phil hippos means a lover of horses.
I admit to being fascinated by the small portion of the eastern empire where Latin was still the native language of the populace from the time of...
I guess I would like to know a lot. Who handled this coin? What was it spent on? Why did in wind up in a hoard that was only recently uncovered?
The Ancients were quite familiar with copper (recall the "Bronze Age") as a metal and could have made small size copper coins for storing in one's...
Your French copper of 1792 is an interesting coin because of its short term mintage. The French Revolution was on (started in 1789) and the king,...
Thanks again. I can't believe I collected ancients for so many years and knew nothing about these coins. I did find a few, very few, for sale on...
Thanks for that info. Do you by any chance know the full inscriptions that are inscribed on both sides? Did any other municipalities beside...
Thank you for the links and the images. Yes, that's what they look like and all seem to have on them a female deity which reads Thean Romen, a...
I was wondering if it might be possible for some members well versed in ancients to tell me about ancient coins issued in the eastern region of...
Actually several sub species of creatures from what was then the Roman Empire are now extinct, possibly from environmental changes, or possibly...
Pope Urban II's call for Western warriors to take up the cross was at the bidding of the Byzantine Emperor Alexius. Once in the empire the...
I think Mexico might disagree with the assessment that this raid was the "only time California was invaded by an enemy".
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