Not a super important provenance, but a nice surprise.... Pair of surprises: coin and literature. In addition to coins, I really love provenanced...
I don't have any or know anything at all about Chola, Sri Lankan or similar coins (closest I have are Kushan/Baktrian), so I'm just here to say:...
As I see it, the city must be Judaea, Ascalon. Compare to these examples (especially the from Hadrian on):...
Oh, yes! There are some fun ones. Silenos (my favorite type), bee [edit: oops, previously Lesbos or Lycia, not Ionia?], Athena. Those are just...
Nick -- what a fantastic little coin! Do you have the weight? (Hemi/Obol?) As a collector of Greek AR fractions, I believe strongly that some...
Yes, looking in ACSearch, now I see several of them (various different reverses, but mostly normal types besides size of flan). Sometimes the...
Plated Drachms of the Pseudo-Rhodian type are definitely know to exist. (I'm sure they're not "official" issues, but contemporary counterfeits,...
The link to the ANS book review is broken (posted above by @Ardatirion) but here is a current one: ANS Magazine, Winter 2005, pp. 68-71
While looking at The Planchet archives, I noticed the group's obituary in their Facebook page feed: Bio from Edmonton Numismatic Society on...
Those are some fine LRBC helmets! Some favorites from the Roman period(s): [IMG] RRC. L. Julius L.f. Caesar (Moneyer) AR Denarius (3.92g, 17mm,...
Interesting tag. I've never seen it. (I'd remember the octagonal shape!) Adding it to my tags file under unidentified, so I'll let you know if I...
It is indeed a single-collector sale (and a very high quality collection at that): "The Property of a Lady: Part II." (See: BCD Library...
Here are several coins from an "Albert Reeves Collection" that seem very likely to be the same collection (hefty Greek & RPC bronzes), and the...
Okay, update on the collector. Some of the original Elder sale catalogs from the 1930s can be found Archive, and I've seen coins for sale before...
I'm at work for an hour but I'll send you my Charles McReeve (?) notes when I get back and see if I can spot anything further about this one......
Even more the first time they sold it! EUR 3,250 at Auction 72, No. 741 [ACSearch]. (Do I have that right?! I'm going by their printed PRL, since...
Just some Greek ones here: I think about the Greek representations of helmets as existing along a continuum with two poles, either of which can be...
Thanks for sharing that, I'm sorry to hear. I wish I'd communicated with him more often, but enjoyed those times I did and appreciated his posts...
That just registered! I've been at it approximately half that long (always ancients, with a break or two in the middle) and sometimes forget there...
I definitely do NOT recommend doing it like me. (Well, I recommend the way I do it in the very bottom video clip.) But for anything that doesn't...
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