So I stole that subject line from Doug Smith. Sorry. Also, this may be a longish post. Sorry again. But based on some passing recommendations...
It seems we are inclined to post when we’ve had a bad consumer experience. Let me briefly share a positive one. Saturday before last, I decided...
So back in the fall I bought a nice pair of "EZ-Cal" digital calipers for about $27. A few months later I saw some cheap Malaysian-made plastic...
Ok, last lazy ID question for the day. Really, I’m just looking for confirmation here. Two coins: COIN 1: I think this is Constantine I; RIC VII...
So apparently there’s a breed of ancients collector out there who enjoys counting blocks and rows and dots in the process of identifying the...
So I am bidding on a coin on eBay. Starting bid is $100. I bid that. I am the only bidder. Then the listing says that the reserve is not met. So I...
I am considering purchasing an unsold lot from an Italian auction. I really know very little about the numismatic auction world; it seems to be...
So I was going through some photos from Jan 2016 and ran across some pix I took in the National Archaeological Museum of Venice, right on the...
So I've been collecting long enough now that I probably have about 25 or 30 coins that I would like to "designate for assignment," as they say in...
With Randy’s recent post about completing a Constans mint set for Siscia, I thought I would start a thread that I’ve been thinking about for a...
So I've never been able to spot die matches. It was always mystifying to me to see how other collectors could casually and with confidence quickly...
Still cataloguing this university gift. Here's a Byzantine anonymous follis. I'm guessing it's Class A3 just by poking around, but I don't have...
So I'm still cataloguing this coin donation and I ran across this one. Most of the Nicaea provincial coin reverses feature military standards with...
As I have mentioned on this list before, I'm cataloging 32 coins given to my university. I'm generally doing fine, but I can't find what the META...
So I just bought this Diocletian SACRA MONETA coin last night (seller’s pic): Obverse: IMP DIOCLETIANVS P F AVG, His laureate head right....
[ATTACH] I recently bought this coin of Constantine with the scarce (rare?) obverse legend CONSTANTINUS FIL AUGG. The two G’s presumably mean that...
SOLD 1/23/2017. THANKS FOR LOOKING. Just put this little lady on eBay....
My university has been given a modest collection of 31 Roman and Biblical coins. A student and I are collaborating on a project to catalog them...
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