I am advancing in years and I have not looked at my back for a long time, so there just might be a stripe running down it. However, my snores...
Thank you for that passage, and the image as well. I wonder what species that frog is a member of. My understanding is the brighter the color,...
He retired. Marc Breitsprecher bought his entire inventory.
Definitely! I think any attempt to clean this coin would be a big mistake. Thanks
I think, as you move along in collecting ancients, your interest becomes more focused. Seleukid coins, in all of their variety, is a good field...
I forgot to mention that this coin is from the inventory of John Jencek, San Mateo, California.
It is Tuesday night, the first full day of "shelter in place" order, the late winter night sky is providing much needed rain, and the music of...
You might be right. I need to produce much better images of both sides. I don't own a digital camera or a smart phone. I need to buy camera,...
Yes, there's corrosion above the head, or at least a dip in the flan that caused some of the legend to go missing. This is the best (and only)...
I came across an unusual billon tetradrachm of Caracalla, Antioch mint. I think I paid $20 for it on eBay, from an Israeli dealer who specializes...
I've always found comfort in the music of Mendelssohn. [MEDIA]
Sorry for your loss. Here's an Eastern Celtic imitative tetradrachm of Thasos that I picked up in a recent auction. Quite modern in a somewhat...
Yes, a coin from the late middle ages.
Yes, that would be a nice experience, and if I had the money, I would have purchased the hoard and kept it intact. As a group it has historical...
Yes, I think this is a field, a very challenging one, that a numismatic scholar might consider pursuing. Some countermarks are crude in nature...
That's a lovely example. I recently obtained images of a hoard of Attica tetradrachms from Syria. The hoard, I was told, was discovered in...
Here's an Attica tetradrachm that just arrived today. I purchased it as a post-auction coin because of the interesting counterstamps on both the...
That is a classic depiction of Athena advancing with raised shield and spear. I've also seen this on tetradrachms of Alexander III.
The coin that I think is an imitation is an enigma. I guess that's why I like it. It does go against the conventions of the archaic style and it...
You have some nice examples of Attica tetradrachms used in commerce. You might be able to identify some of them, such as the banker's marks on...
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