Every now and then I get an urge to try making photos with a very old microscope that I have had since college but it was vintage then. Looking...
It strikes me that, if we have the 12 Caesars dictating what 'proper' Roman collectors must own, we also should have a list of twelve Greek cities...
Every year about this time it seems appropriate to review the new acquisitions and address why some are more thrilling than others. Again this...
These two images show the same coin (Faustina II Alexandria tetradrachm) photographed with two different cameras, two different lenses lenses on...
I was thrilled to receive the item in the photo below as a gift from my late friend Roger Bickford-Smith over 25 years ago. Roger was not a...
It strikes me w have been seeing a larger than usual number of coins of the Lycian Dynasts lately. Two weeks ago, I had none but two coin shows...
I was not happy with the first photo I did of my 5mm 0.16g tetartemorion of Apollonia Pontika so I tried again. It is a tiny, dark silver coin...
We have had many coins here from Amisos, Pontos, including the large and wonderful Headless Medusa type. There have been other posts featuring...
furryfrog02 went to Baltimore on Saturday. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/first-4-from-baltimore.326063/ I went on Friday. He took his sone...
Among the coins I bought in Baltimore was this rather ordinary 1st century BC AE22 of Elaiussa in Cilicia. Many Greek bronzes have Zeus and Nike...
Friday I spent over 9 hours in a vanpool bus so I could spend 5 hours at the Baltimore coin show. It was a miserable rainy day but the show made...
Did anyone else look over the prices realized list from the just closed Frank Robinson sale? It struck me that there were more than usual where...
Today I went to the Richmond VA coin show. Two of my favorite dealers skipped this show but will be in Baltimore next week. That meant I spent...
We regularly have posts of the FEL TEMP REPARATIO type "Falling Horseman" showing the defeat of a mounted barbarian but Constantius II and others...
My coin show Saturday produced three bronzes of which two were the same land and two of which were by a king named Rhoemetalkes but the two of the...
Sallent said it in another thread. However, Litra collecting might not be for everybody. Like their tiny bronze counterparts, these little coins...
Among the coins that followed me home from the VNA show Saturday were these two small silvers. I have always wanted the first and the second...
Actually things have been going pretty well with my attempt to ID the bucket (very small bucket) of common cash I have been ignoring for years but...
Since I have not been buying ancient coins much lately I decided to dig out a group of Chinese (mostly) cash I have had for a while and see if I...
Every so often I wonder if all our newest collectors are aware of all that exists in the way of options for their hobby. This post is to remind...
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