Coins come in a range of denominations, but if the value of a coin you have is too high for the purchase you intend, what can you do? Cut it in...
I have many web pages on ancient coins. Some were hard to find and lacked links on my "Table of Contents" page: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ Now...
What makes an ancient coin valuable? How valuable is it to you? I decided to write up some thoughts about the personal value of ancient coins:...
I have some ex-library Loeb Classics. For sale in the US only! They tell the stories than make your ancient coins interesting. They are withdrawn,...
Tranquillina was married in 241 to the boy-emperor Gordian III (238-244) by her father, Timesitheus, who ancient historians have lauded as an...
A friend recently gifted me this nice Byzantine coin of Constantine VII. It legends are stronger than usual. Only a very small fraction are nicer...
When I buy I am usually careful to check the cost of shipping in advance. I made a mistake by not asking for a particular cost in advance from...
I diverted from my usual interest in Byzantine copper to buy this gold piece because of its fantastic reverse design: [ATTACH] Look at the...
I don't even know what these are! But, in 2004 I bought three CDs with lots of pictures of them and I don't know what else. [ATTACH] One was...
There are many ancient imitations stuck in the time of Constantine. CoinTalk had a thread started by @Victor_Clark with some recently:...
[SOLD] If a book or article is old enough, it is out of copyright and Google may have scanned it and put it on the web. It seems some people...
Dr. Alan Walker of Nomos in Switzerland regularly sends out notifications of upcoming sales and results of recent sales. Sometimes he includes...
Here are my ancient-world-related Christmas gifts: [ATTACH] My family knows not to try to buy me ancient coins; I do that myself. For some...
Last night I made myself a dish of mint chocolate chip ice cream with half a banana sliced up on it, coated lightly in Hershey's Chocolate syrup,...
Diocletian's coin reform of c. 294 initiated the very common GENIO POPVLI ROMANI type at fourteen mints. The type was replaced at central mints by...
[ATTACH] Numerian, after his death 21 mm. 3.17 grams. Struck Nov. 284 - spring 285. This is easy to date because it is after the death of...
I recommend CoinTalk to friends who join but don't know how to begin a thread. One asked me what to do and here is what I wrote one of them today:...
Here is a new webpage on coins of Panticapaeum: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Pan/Pan.html The famous "Bosporus strait" is the narrow waterway...
Academia.edu is a great site for having academic articles about ancient coins. It sends me emails when articles I might be interested in are...
During the early Byzantine period the Thessalonica mint did not mint copper for Anastasius and did not mint the follis ("M", for 40-nummus)...
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