I'm sure anyone who reads my posts has seen my Quadrigatus by now. It's my 2nd favorite coin in my collection. Ever since I got my Quadrigatus I...
One thing I really enjoy collecting is REALLY old coinage. The older the better! I think what amazes me the most is that the gold & silver in the...
I've seen a lot of people doing these so I decided I would do one myself :). This year is the first year I began collecting Ancients so...
No not counterfeit slabs. Authentic ones! I was browsing on HA and somehow I came across this Chinese coin that is slabbed by “GBCA” (Gong Bo...
Today I won this denarius of Julia Donna and it’s my first denarius in MS condition. ^_^. I love that it has the Palladium on it. In Greek &...
I was reading through coin world and I found this link saying the US Mint has decided to continue the Morgan & Peace Dollars series:...
For a while I’ve been keeping my eye out for nice examples of the first Twelve Caesar’s (at a reasonable price) and today I managed to win this...
My younger brother works as a server at a sushi restaurant in California and a lot of times tourists eat there and tip with foreign currency....
Decided to pick up a denarius of Geta since I already have a denarius of his father Septimius Severus and brother Caracalla. This is the one I...
I just shipped my 18x 2021 Morgans and Peace Dollars to PCGS and I was asked if I wanted “signature on delivery” with my shipment. I said yes...
The story goes that Alexander’s father Phillip II paid a merchant 13 talents for Alexander’s horse Bucephalus (literally “Ox head”) after first...
At what point does it become necessary for someone to insure their collection against theft/natural disaster/etc,. ? Is it only worth doing above...
I read an interesting article a few weeks ago about a guy who donated a lot of his collection to a museum for 2 years because they were doing a...
Tonight is the night. In about 20 minutes I will be cracking open my NGC holder (the first time I’ve ever done so) with my Ch VF graded Trajan...
Sorry for so many posts recently. I got alot of things I wanted to share. ^_^ This is the 3rd denarius that I won at last night’s auction. I...
Apparently yesterday was my lucky day because I won not one, not two, but three denarii at auction when normally I consider it a good day if I win...
I’ve been going through my safe and trying to organize my coins so I could free up some space and I came across this coin that I got from my...
Now I have the entire (relevant) family of my favorite Emperor Marcus Aurelius! I have Marcus Aurelius himself, Faustina the Younger, Commodus...
For almost a year now my oldest coin was my Athenian owl Tetradrachm minted between 440 BC and 404 BC. Well today I got an even older coin! :)...
I managed to pick up this Trajan tetradrachm today for a good price :). One thing I like about it is that it's a coin of Trajan's but it's not a...
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