I just came across this interesting article in the Guardian, about silphium....
Nice owl imitation! Just a wonderful obverse and reverse! I believe it is a drachm from Lihyan. The reverse style certainly suggests that...
Wonderful tetradrachms, especially the first one!
Is the transfer fee charged by Wise.com lower than what your credit card company would charge for a comparable purchase? They do provide an...
Those are very nice coins, Donna. I think the Caracalla tetradrachm is very choice, so much better than is typically encountered, with very good...
I see. I've never used Wise.com. With Paypal payment is made through a credit card, Paypal Credit or checking account, whichever is on file....
When I think of grade for ancient coins, I think of wear. Of course it is often hard to differentiate between wear and worn dies. So, a...
I feel your frustration. The coins should arrive but, yes, shipping from Europe has been fraught with delays, generally speaking. In the end,...
[ATTACH] Next: An assassination of a would-be tyrant, "Et Tu Bru.....?" (the unkindest cut of them all), subject of a famous play by Shakespeare...
The Chinese were very good at detecting debased coinage and by extension sycee. The banks and merchants who produced these ingots would have...
I avoid using the word impossible, but I agree that it is extremely unlikely. Looking at the coin, it seems that there was folding but also a...
This "folded flan" owl arrived today. The primary reason why I acquired this coin from Tom Vossen through VCoins is the strong folded flan...
That's a beautifully struck con!
It's interesting, comparing the Anitoch tetradrachm with the posted denarii of Otho, how the tetradrachm's portrait has some resemblance to...
That is odd. Longstanding traditions die hard.
I'll try to take some snaps of the 50 taels sycee over the weekend. My understanding is that the sycee, at least in the 19th-20th centuries, and...
In 2015 I purchased a group lot of Southeast Asia ingots at the Sedwick Auction of October 28-30 2015. Here's part of that lot, three tiger...
You have what is commonly referred to as a saddleback sycee. They're one of the most common forms, issued in Yunnan and they're very cool, with...
Sestertius, Annona reverse, 181 AD BMC 442 note, citing Naville II, 1922, 1027 (same dies as this coin); bust variety of C 4-5 and BM 442-445....
That's a very nice Otho denarius, @Gam3rBlake! My only coin for this emperor is a tetradrachm of Antioch, 69 AD, in pretty much "as found"...
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