In 2018 it took 2 days for me to receive an invoice.
These are often described merely as "bald satyr" but I believe they are Silenos. [ATTACH] THRACE, Thasos, 411 - 404 BC? AR Tritartemorion. 8mm,...
Here is a mystery imitative. Is it Byzantine? Arab-Byzantine? or Crusader? [ATTACH] Zangid of Syria (or Crusaders?), fals, Nur al-Din Mahmud,...
This is a very interesting type! Adrienne Mayor claims (The Amazons, p. 265) that these coins depict Antiope, the Amazon who married Theseus. In...
I like it! Especially the combination of Sogdian and Arabic inscriptions. I recall you have had your eyes on this type for a while.
I added two "citation needed" notes to the Wikipedia article, for the shape of the star and for the color of the horse's eyes. We shall see if...
:( I don't have a good answer. I read it in Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucephalus#Taming_of_Bucephalus says "Bucephalus is...
Bucephalus had a large white star on his brow. (A star is a Macedonian royal symbol.) There is a story, I don't know if it is true, that the...
For those trying to decide what days to attend... Typically, I make a list of any coins that will be auctioned that I want to see. I attend the...
Good pictures of the 2015 show: https://coinsweekly.com/visiting-the-new-york-international/
Most things can be safely loaned. The museum probably has more security than you. The museum is probably insured. The coin might increase in...
D.F. Grotjohann, who has a VCoins store until about 2010, is now selling ancient coin NFTs at https://opensea.io/DFGrotjohann. He has 13 ancient...
Killer Klown anyone? He is holding a squirting (?) flower. [ATTACH] HUNNIC TRIBES, Alchon Huns. Narana-Narenda. Late 4th-early 5th century AD....
I usually use SAFLIP brand mylar flips, which I have read are 5 mil thick. The flip I had trouble with was thicker. I don't recall the brand.
[ATTACH] Tetradrachm (17.04 gm). Arados mint. Civic issue, dated city year 59 (201/0 BC). Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin...
Another word with this problem is triskeles. In numismatics, 'triskeles' is singular. Wikipedia and Wiktionary considers the word to be...
Does anyone make felt trays/shelves with mixed size squares?
The publisher is the Numismatic Museum in Athens. They have a shop. If anyone has lots of copies, it would be them....
Peter Landesman of The Atlantic did a story in 2001 you might enjoy....
There are examples that look like birds: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8534633 There are examples with the blob, but the blob has an...
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