I suggest getting a card reader that will transfer your files. My cameras all used CF cards but you can get universal readers that will take a...
My one and only slab has been shown here several times before but if any of you new people have not seen it and do not know why I have not removed...
EOP is 175
This is definitely Septimius Severus of a Greek legend Provincial mint I can not name off hand. At the bottom of the reverse is legend naming the...
Over the years I have bought fourrees as solid and solids as fourree from dealers who should know better. One was a 'fourree' Vespasian denarius...
Looks real to me. Perhaps there is a worse answer than slabbing.
We will each have to answer the question in our own way. I make the choice of buying more coins I want and keeping them in paper envelopes. I...
Working only with Mitchiner, I'd call it a Mitchiner 3032-3033 which he lists as "more formalized design with the body shown as three horizontal...
Your first two make a good point about why I am less active in medieval than I might like to be. The first is a nice coin and not all that hard...
I really discourage the idea of budget in collecting coins but that does not mean I think you should spend money you do not have. What I don't...
Agree! That is a nice one from the period when the coins were at their largest. Icerain's coin is nice, too, but by year 20 the shrinking was...
Die duplicates are not all that uncommon if you are studying an issue. There are even coin types that are only known from one die set so every...
Mitchiner separates these late birds into several groups by weight, fineness and size. I have no idea whether his divisions are considered valid...
When my daughter taught kindergarten, she emphasized that the kids must make an 8 with one fluid motion of the pencil. Later in life some of...
I grew up eating muskmelons but stores where I am today sell cantaloupes. Don't ever get in a discussion of what goes in chili, what kind of...
I find it interesting that the barley stands upright in the time of Herod Agrippa while the same grain droops under Pilate. Perhaps this...
This problem was caused by US collectors buying English books (Seaby) but failing to translate the word corn to grain. Z's germinating barley...
This is also an example of the unusual denomination of 4 1/2 assaria, The half is indicated on the right by the < symbol. I believe the...
This is way out of my comfort zone but I see the first elephant as year dated 1221? (AM or Mauludi=1793), perhaps Patan? I am extrapolating this...
I consider this a given fact. It almost seems odd when you see Egyptian types on Alexandrian coins. Out of a hundred random samples you would be...
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