I'm currently in the middle of a two-week "on call" for my job that requires that I'm either at home or at work for calls 24x7. Not being able to...
Hello everyone, When I first started coin collecting, I wanted a storage mechanism that would satisfy the following criteria. Keep the coins...
Hello everyone, The Edom attribution was what drew me to this coin. However, after some research, I doubted that the attribution was correct....
I must admit that I'd hoped to show you something completely different. There were a number of coins I was interested in at an auction where I'd...
Recently, my family and I took a trip to France. The trip was a week long and we spent it visiting the towns of Chantilly and Gerberoy, then...
For the most part, I don't actively collect Roman coins. I have roughly fifty of them, mostly denarii, from that naïve time when I thought a...
Hello everyone, Since I've started collecting ancient coins, neither of my sons have taken particular notice. In fact, recently my younger son...
Things have been incredibly busy at work and at home lately. I still have a good number of coins to add to my database and to my website, but it...
In my bid to expand the story of "Philip II, Alexander III, and the Age of the Diadochi", I recently picked up these coins that I thought I'd...
Thought I'd try something a bit different. I know the title may sound a bit obnoxious, but I'm hoping this will be fun. I'd like to buy a coin....
A long, long time ago in a place not so far away, there lived a man named Zopyrion. He was a Macedonian under Alexander the Great, and had been...
Recently, when I realized I had some budget after unexpectedly losing a coin at auction, I pulled up my Pri 1 list and remembered that there was...
I'm sure there's a logical answer for how I was outbid on a coin this morning at Leu, but right now I'm confused. Since I knew I would be...
[ATTACH] Epeiros.The Molossi AE Circa 360-330/25 BCE Ex Bertolami Auction 44 (Sep 2017) Ex Catawiki Announcer: Welcome to the Bachelorette,...
I bought this coin last year in order to fill in my Polyperchon page in my Philip II, Alexander III, and the Age of the Diadochi collection. This...
Recently, I picked this coin up. I bought it mainly due to the Menelaus (brother of Ptolemy I) attribution, as his coins aren't common, but I was...
I'm sure I'm not the first one this has happened to, but the following was my decision process recently for a coin. Me: Ooh, that coin looks nice...
Hello everyone! After more than a little work, I've completed my new site that covers my collection from Philip II, Alexander III, and the Era of...
Once upon a time (or more specifically, 332 BCE), there were four little Phoenicians. The first little Phoenician was named Gerostratos of...
I thought I'd start a thread on what we do when we receive new coins. The following is mine: Place the coin in a new flip, since many sellers...
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