While this is not exclusively about ancient coins, I was really absorbed in it when my father gave me a copy. The photos showed all kinds of...
That's an excellent question. For me, in a very general sense, a thousand years works. However, some items like Anglo-Saxon English coins can be...
FWIW, I remembered Nepotian being rare, but had forgotten just how rare. I'm glad the OP steered clear.
Yes, I should have added that I'm not really qualified to determine whether or not that coin is authentic or fake, though I stand by the rest of...
For what it's worth, that one looks OK to me- doesn't appear to be an obvious fake, at any rate- [and that's where I'd be proven wrong, yet again]...
Couldn't wait until Monday to open it. Thanks, Secret Saturn! How in the world did you guess I didn't already have a Laelianus aureus? Mighty...
Lo and behold, my mailbox this morning was a cornucopia. ... of junk mail. But wrapped up in all the junk mail was ... this! :woot: [ATTACH]
Who said anything about rare coins? These are common as dirt. :hilarious:
(Play from modern Syria next) Ancient Greece: Seleucid Kingdom, bronze AE19 of Antiochus VIII, ca. 121-96 BC Obverse: radiate and diademed head...
I never find anything either, except ironically in my own change, as mentioned.
PS- if you were to forensically test that adhesion at 11:00 on the German coin (behind the lady's head) I am nearly certain you would find it to...
Well, there was an old dinner mint in there with the change. (Fortunately still wrapped, or that stuff would've been even stickier.)
Behold! Some spotty old stuff. An 1896 Austrian 2-heller and 1949-F West German 50-pfennig. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I said "sort of" in the title...
Not necessarily so. Modern cents do not actually circulate very much. (But quarters do.) Furthermore, the post-1982 cents with a zinc core and...
I want a horsey gold stater but that is unlikely to happen anytime soon. I have yet to own my first Celtic coin but hope to remedy that in 2019.
Thank you. References to die axis and notations like "0°, 180°", etc. I could follow, but that little "12h, 5h" abbreviation eluded me.
Pretty fascinating find, considering the purported findspot. It would not surprise me to see a late-medieval era coin like this show up in St....
@jonathan layne - this is not the For Sale forum. You'll need to go there to see stuff that's for sale. If you want to ask people questions like...
No, it was the Holey Gold Hat (and Holey Coin Vest). Those were a much earlier collection, first begun circa 2000-2001. The Eclectic Box began...
I've never been to continental Europe, much as I'd love to have seen it. :( Did finally get to the UK in 2013. That was fun.
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