Several auction companies offer limited descriptions for their coins. The pictures are normally ok. A lot of these companies have low start prices...
I saw an interesting coin recently. It has a snake or dragon on the back. I do not read midevil. Can someone here tell me who issued this coin and...
Picked a couple of coins to add to my L collection. That is for Luceria in Northern Apulia and not: Lanuvium where Juno Sospita wore a goat skin...
We have a coin show this weekend in Houston. Today 11 - 5 and tomorrow (Sat) 9 - 3. The weather is a frosty, for Houston, 30 this morning. My wife...
I saw an interesting and uncommon Roman Republican struck Asse recently. The seller's pics are below. I found only two examples online. One was in...
The Romans used shells on cast bronze coins in the 3rd century BC. They also produced cast bronze shells. I think some were votive items for...
I attempted to buy a scale book from a company in France. They accepted the order, could not find the book and put me on their email list. When...
Like lots of folks I follow several folks online who post about ancient coins. Recently I started following a few folks on Instagram. They post...
I picked up an interesting coin and a few weights from the last Zeus auction. (I thought of adding this @panzerman 's recent Zeus post... Zeus...
I found a few interesting coins in 2021. The ten best and order of the best could change, but only after #1 & #2. Season's greetings to you and...
I am not sure how many here have followed this, but it is worth googling: US billionaire surrenders $70m of stolen art, and you will have several...
A coin type I wanted for a while arrived last week, a cast Dupondius. It is quite a hand full. My cast coins are normally better in hand than in...
[ATTACH] I picked up a Silenos coin and two pieces that were sold as scale weights. The portraits look similar in hand. [ATTACH] Roman...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Ptolemaic Kings of Egypt, AE Oktobol, 246 to 222 BC Ptolemy III Euergetes; Mint: Alexandria ? Obv: Laureate head of Zeus...
I found a few interesting coins at the Houston Fall Coin Show. Only one RR, but it is a nice Wolf & Twins Sextans. Picked up a PTOLEMAIC hockey...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I am now the proud owner of two Triens scale weights. The first one arrived last month - My first Roman Triens (4...
I bought 3 modest priced coins and a scale weight a few weeks ago. I really wanted the NB coin weight. Shipping and handling was 3 times the price...
My grandson and I visited the Beaumont, TX coin show today. They had a youth auction and he came away with lots of good stuff. He even sold a note...
I have collected Roman scale weights for a few years. Today my first four dotter / IIII VNCIA / Triens arrived. Roman Four Ounce Commercial Scale...
Seems like most of my recent wins have been bronze. [ATTACH] The largest (115 grams) and smallest (1.21 grams) have sea eagle reverses....
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