It doesn’t really seem that illogical. Surely at some point in ancient times a moneyer would’ve tried to make a perfect example of a coin by...
I was watching a video that @Roman Collector shared with me about the debasement of the denarius from the medium sized high purity coins of the...
All of the coins I buy online or at auction come via USPS. I live in California and right now it’s getting up to 109 degrees in the afternoon....
As someone interested in the topic I was reading a research paper about debasement of the Roman silver denarius and I found something very...
I was just browsing through my collections and by chance I happened to look at a Liberty Seated Dollar (not the one in the picture. I just used...
I want to take a picture of every coin & banknote in my collection to keep a documented inventory of what I have in case of theft, fire, etc,.....
As a Roman coin collector now that I’ve got a quadrigatus I would really like to pickup a coin that has Romulus & Remus on it. Bonus points if it...
In 1933 Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102 which forced Americans to hand over their gold to the government in an attempt to prevent...
In 1973, the US Congress passed the Hobby Protection Act prohibiting the importation or sale “of any imitation numismatic item which is not...
The only condition I’m going to add is that the coin you pick cannot be sold since otherwise people would obviously pick the most expensive...
I was just browsing Heritage Auctions, something I do regularly, and I came across this gold ingot bar from 1855. It says it’s ~160 oz of .891...
Hey fellow collectors! I wanted to share my newest pickup with you guys. I think I got it at a great price! This is a Roman Republic...
I’ve seen NGC mark some coins as “clipped” and I’m wondering what signs or methods they use to identify a clipped coin? I feel like this Hadrian...
I don’t have any myself :( But I really like the way electrum coins look with the luster of silver and the glow of gold. The Greeks made some...
I’ve seen a bunch of coins that had chopmarks on them and I was told it was to “validate the coin was legit” but how did a chopmark validate...
I’m looking for a roll of BU Mercury Dimes for my collection and I’m wondering if anyone knows of any good places to buy them? I don’t really...
Although Marcus Aurelius gets all the credit and praise and Verus is kind of forgotten about (like not being included as one of the “Good...
Hey guys, I just got this email from Heritage Auctions and I’m wondering if it’s a scam? I checked the email sender and it’s ha@bids.com which...
I’ve seen a lot of Ancient Greek coins on this forum but strangely enough I’ve never seen anyone post a coin of Ancient Sparta. Originally I...
I can’t remember if I said I won the auction on this but it finally arrived today and I think it’s even better than I was expecting. I’ve always...
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