Best wishes for the holiday season from Texas. [ATTACH] This is the only place I have seen cactus growing in the shore of a salt water lake....
A bronze As of Q.MARC.LIBO arrived today. I liked that most of the name could be read. It goes well with the denarius of the same series I bought...
I had a few visitors while I was packing my exhibit. I let them hold some 150 BC coins (from my half As collection). [ATTACH] For being...
This cast bronze, Ramo Secco, bar is 30 mm wide at the top and 40 mm wide at the base. It is about 30 mm thick, but the top part is only 10 mm...
I saw an interesting coin on a stamp today. This one is a bit pricey, but not as expensive as the coin in good shape. The auction has several...
I picked up an interesting coin at a coin show last weekend. It was a bit out of my normal collecting area, Provincial, Imperatorial, but who can...
This post is about my newest piece. If you do not want the back story, skip to the end. I think of cast bars and parts of cast bars as much older...
My wife and I just made arrangements to go to New York in January. I plan to see lots of ancient coins at the NYINC and she will be in yarn bliss...
I received messages on this subject three times today: Kunker sent me an e-mail about their next auction. They reminded me that Germany's new...
My wife is a knitter. She has about as many yarn friends as I have coin friends. We often stop at yarn shops on vacation (the same can be said of...
I have shown my cut RR Asses before. This week, I added a half denarius to the collection, see below. Can anyone ID the denarius? My best guess on...
I attended a meeting of ancient coin collectors last week. It was interesting seeing what others collect and some of the stories that went with...
My main collecting area is the Roman Republican coin series. I have expanded my interests to cast bronze from Italy. Most of my collection can be...
Someone texted me the pic below and asked what it is. Anyone have a clue? I do not know anything other than the pic. It looks like a pig and...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Anonymous Semilibral Quartuncis, Struck Rome, 217 to 215 BC, Cr 38/8 Roman Republican AE, Anonymous, Semilibral, Quartuncis,...
I was busy the last half of July and several items from overseas arrives this week. The wait time was 1 to 2 weeks. Most had a day added because...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] A bronze currency bar arrived this week. This one is about the size of a Sextans or 1/6 th of a Roman pound. I have seen them...
I normally pass on Greek coin lots, but this one struck my fancy with the horses. There are 3 Numidian Micipa / horse coins, 4 Punic Tanit / horse...
A Roman Plum Bob arrived this week. It is one of the smaller ones I have. It is about 1/8th of an inch short of 2" long and weighs 61 grams....
I picked up my 3rd cast coin in the Tuder, Umbria series. This semis has a sleeping dog and a lyre. Info on this coin is shown below, but first...
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