I've been reading about the various patinas bronze coins can have, both natural and artificial, and a I would like opinions about the coin below....
I've had this coin for about a year. I noticed that the coin's surface appeared to be deteriorating in the NGC slab. Here's the coin removed...
It must have been an unusually bad day at the mint in Constantinople. This follis of Emperor Phocas (or at least someone who looks an awful lot...
[IMG] "Poseidon is coming! Poseidon is coming! I Theseus tell you so, I his son. The sacred bull was killed and the Earth Bull has wakened!...
John H. Kroll, in his paper on THE CHRONOLOGY OF THIRD-CENTURY BC ATHENIAN SILVER COINAGE, mentions tetradrachms and drachms of this period that...
Yesterday, outside the front gate, on driveway(!), I found a package of long awaited lots from Roma Numismatics. Included was a large lot of...
One of the advantages, if one could call it that, of having a failing memory is the joy of rediscovering a coin that was assumed to be long gone....
This coin arrived yesterday. It is an owl, intermediate, from the 4th century BC. This example does show the characteristics of a folded flan,...
I would like to share with you an area of numismatics that has been my concentration for nearly 40 years, trade coinage. It is hard to say when...
I knew it was some in drawer, and I found it today. It's not the greatest and it's not the worst. I think it is made of silver, but of unknown...
I came across this odd Byzantine coin, very thin and shaped like a mini dipping sauce cup. When I acquired this coin, I cannot say with any...
Over the better part of my life I have had to deal with depression. The reasons for this are manifold and I do not intend to delve into that...
Here's a coin that I purchased from Harlan Berk back in the early 90s (that's as close I can get without resorting to carbon 14 dating). It is a...
Normally I do not buy coins based on the animals depicted on them. Every now and then there's a nice example of Pegasus on a stater of Corinth,...
Ptolemy XII, whose full name was Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos Philopator Philadelphos, and commonly known to as Auletes (Greek for "The Flautist",...
This coin is an impulse purchase, fueled by a price markdown, which took the price from stratospheric to somewhere at cruising altitude for most...
I found this coin among several other dirty, worn bronzes last night. The profile looks a lot like that of Cleopatra VII. At first I thought it...
After receiving Chester Starr's book on Athenian coinage, I started going through the owls, and came across another coin that I think falls into a...
With the shelter in place still in effect, at least where I live, and having a lot of time to actually use my brain, something that has been a...
I came across this coin, purchased as part of a large lot of Byzantine bronzes about two years ago. The reverse field seemed odd, especially...
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