I found this message in my inbox this morning: President Trump has introduced tariffs for the majority of imports into the US, including...
I purchased this small late 7th century AD imitation of the standing follis of Constans II a couple of months ago, and just got around to...
This coin is a very recent acquisition, and since it has a reverse rooted the central design used on the Athenian new style tetradrachms, it was a...
I don't think these articles will be saved elsewhere online, so I downloaded some of them to my computer. They are in PDF format. There are...
You've probably have all ready heard, but if not, Roma Numismatics is closing as of the 24th of this month. It's too bad, but given the legal...
This coin is a fairly recent arrival. The primary feature that attracted me to it is the well centered countermark that appears to an anchor,...
From today's Guardian. What's your opinion? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/29/bolivia-shipwreck-colombia-treasure
Here's a thread that I posted on Numis Forums in January, that I would like to share with my colleagues at Coin Talk. First, the coin, a very...
For those interested in treasure salvages, here's what could be the granddaddy of all:...
I'd like to share with my CoinTalk friends a few pick-ups for this year. As a semi generalist collector, I tend to wander far and wide in the...
This is a coin that I purchased purely for the reverse. I don't really collect Roman provincial coins on any systematic basis, but instead on...
Here's a five day old article on efforts to preserve antiquities in Gaza, as well as the challenges of artifacts and coins flowing out of the...
From the current Harlan J Berk buy/bid sale: Trajan Decius, AE sestertius, Rome, 249-251 AD. PANNONIA reverse. RIC-124a; C-87 15.56 grams...
My local coin dealer, Sal is about to embark on a trip to Italy, including a visit to his extended family in Sicily. So, I went through his...
I got a message from a seller earlier this year to be on the lookout for a coat, a gift. I replied that I don't want a coat, only the coin that I...
Sometimes coins are found with letters in the legend or elsewhere transposed, switched in position to the next letter. This coin however is a...
From today's Guardian:...
This very dark salvaged cob came to me by that vast market for coins, the wild west so to speak, eBay, last month. As these coins go it is pretty...
For those of you interested in the history of ancient Rome and Carthage, or anyone else for that matter, PBS has re-aired an old episode that...
This is a coin from the 2022 Syrian group posted on eBay last year that I acquired as almost an afterthought. It certainly is crude and in all...
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