Spink paid 17 pounds for lot 490 in 1969, which worked out to $40 back in the day.
You can at least attribute it as Paeonian Hoard 490, possibly this coin. It's really too bad they didn't photograph and publish all the coins of...
You have obverse die 448 with reverse die 373. There are three coins listed in the Sotheby's catalog with that combination: No. 490, described as...
I believe you have the reverse die of Paeonian Hoard 116. The catalog describes the object under the horse as an upright thunderbolt and the...
Let's see your Paeonian tet...
Recently Sulla80 contacted me and told me he had acquired a Paeonian tetradrachm of Patraos. It turns out that I was in the process of preparing a...
Absolutely lovely! The centering and detail on the reverse is exceptionally good for the issue. You've got a great eye, Donna!
Hey, I used to have one of those!
@dougsmit has posted about his ring lighting experiments in the past. Perhaps he'll have something to add, or search his posts for "ring light."
I've been mailing coins to "down under" for years and it never took more than a week. Recently one of my customers told me his coin had arrved two...
There is a medallion of Commodus. I wonder if the AI was modeling it... [ATTACH]
It's intentionally confusing language in my opinion. Wouldn't "The same type" translate as le même genre or type de pièce?
1840 10 Groszy of Nicholas I, minted in Warsaw but technically a Russian coin - during the period in which Poland was partitioned by Prussia,...
Bugs are the one creature that actually appear on coins life-sized! [ATTACH]
My guarantee lasts the lifetime of a mayfly. JUST KIDDING!
Fun read, thanks for posting it.
Sounds like a magnificent study, and the author has the best name ever for a numismatic writer: Oliver the Emperor!
Good stuff! Those ultra-late campgates look like Dr. Seuss illustrations to me.
Nice read on the blog! Man that legend is wild isn't it? ΒΑIΙΛEΛ ΒΑIΙΛEΛ BAIIΛNOY VIXVIO I•IIIIII BB•IIII• ΠPΦANOY
Probably right.
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