This is one very tiny coin. One could easily blow it off the table with a fierce puff. Though not as tiny as some of the Greek Obols or English...
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This is one of the few I have a photograph of - I also have some raw Peace Dollars, etc. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Since it's Sunday again, I'll post the only relatively decent Barbers I have. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I've attended that show a number of times in the past, but I haven't made it the past few years. I unfortunately had a very sad personal event...
Andronicus I Comnenus ruled from only 1183 to 1185. He met a nasty end at the hands of a frenzied mob. Sear describes his reign as "short and...
The latest version of Monopoly uses a "cash app" instead of paper money. Somewhat a sign of the times, but handling the cash was sometimes the...
It is called "artificial" intelligence for a reason. AI is still in hype phase, but starting to settle down a little bit. A lot of things now...
This is the closest I come to coins like that, but I still love this one. The 18th century half cents are very tough. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
That was typed quickly, but it meant that at least one of those stories posted involved a person getting arrested, or at least brought to a police...
There have been a number of such incidents posted on this forum over the years, some of which led to actual arrests. It's amazing that it keeps...
The Byzantines thought that people with physical mutilations could not rule the empire. So, deposed emperors often had nasty things done to them...
I don't know the answer, either, but this antoninianus didn't put me back very far. Gordian III coins seem pretty affordable overall in general,...
I don't have anything too exciting - just a bunch of Canadian bills I've picked up over the years. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Leo III successfully defended Constantinople from the army of Maslama B. 'Abd. al-Malik in 717-718. Their secret weapon, "Greek Fire," played a...
This Byzantine emperor had his power stolen by Romanus I Lecapenus. Despite the often cruel, gruesome, and brutal Byzantine history of usurpers...
I inherited this mutilated cent. I think it was a machinery experiment. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
The Byzantine Anonymous Folles are fascinating for their iconography and all of the variations they went through. In Sear and Sommer, this one...
Interesting. A number of years ago, I inherited a pile of coins from a now deceased relative. Along with them came a number of "old" paper coin...
The only rule in coin collecting is that there are no rules. I've changed my focus numerous times and have also struggled with collecting versus...
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