Every so often we get the question from new friends here on Coin Talk about what to collect. A major problem is the term 'ancient coins' has...
I bought an ancient coin accompanied by an NGC tag (no plastic) which included a registration number. I entered that number and selected Ancients...
With our recent question about posting informative videos, I started wondering about the relative merit of building videos out of stills with...
Recently Bing posted a thread on how we are guilty of making each other buy coins. This thread is a spin-off of that one. In most cases these...
I have often expressed my strong aversion for coin types showing nothing more than someone standing there. I don't care if you are a major god...
Today I attended a coin show conveniently scheduled on my birthday. For the first decades of my life, no one mentioned I was born on Star Wars...
I know few here share my attraction to Sasanian drachms but I'll post these two new ones from FSR 104. When I buy a Sasanian drachm I really try...
I had been wanting one of these for some time. There have been quite a few on the market over the last few years so they can not be called scarce...
Most collectors like pretty coins but I find a fascination in some of the other extreme. Since this is a minority opinion, I won this piece of...
This may strike some here as odd or inappropriate but I have a request/suggestion that some might consider worthy. Here on Coin Talk we have the...
Can someone provide a reference in RIC where they explain the VI and VII at the end of TSA on some mintmarks from Thessalonika? [ATTACH]
https://www.academia.edu/29744478/L_Empereur_et_l_usurpateur_un_4e_atelier_oriental_sous_Probus Looking over the article above, it struck me that...
My auction newps included two Provincials which I bid upon mostly because I did not have them and thought I should. That seems like a lame reason...
I did not bid on this coin the first time around but when it showed up on the 'going cheaply' list, I sent a bid. I always wanted one of these...
My package of six winners arrived today with only 24 stamps on the envelope. Of the six coins, this was the most expensive and the ugliest. I...
I have always liked coins with questions and that is what attracted me to the Anonymous Pagan AE4's as represented by my latest purchase (from...
A fit of excessive bidding brought me five new Sasanian drachms - all the same - all different. All five are Peroz 459-484 AD using his third...
My first new coin of 2018 is something I always found interesting but turns out to be even more especially considering its less than perfect...
2017 was a really, really big year here - I mean really. I added 118 coins to my catalog and a small handfull that was sold through John Anthony...
I have expressed my opinion that it is too early to post my ten favorites of 2017 because I hoped to add another winner. However I am comfortable...
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