Let's remember to distinguish between "selling for" and "offered at."
It is with great sadness that I write to inform our forum that our member and my friend Terence Cheeseman from Edmonton, Canada, died Jan. 10,...
Here are some ideas for a collection: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/catalogs/themes.html That page does not discuss some obvious themes like the...
Carbon dating works only for artifacts with carbon, for example wood or cloth.
This is what Naumann has to do because they sell from Austria. In a rational world all the coins would be cleared in advance and any sensitive...
There is always the question of how wide to make tables and images. I made the tables 1100 or 1200 pixels wide and the main coin images 800 or...
For over twenty years I have had a web page for beginners "Ancient Roman and Greek coins, FAQ. Answers to frequently asked questions":...
I added some looks to my site on ancient-coin literature: http://augustuscoins.com/numislit.html Shipping is to the US only. $4 for one book,...
Go to your favorite auction consolidator. It might be sixbid or numisbids or biddr or some other one. Type into their global search "aureus" and...
I have a webpage with an annotated list of useful websites. I just checked it for broken links. (Most web pages with lists of links have many...
Alan Walker of Nomos recently wrote about their upcoming auction and added some thoughts about "cultural heritage." I asked for and got his...
I went through this thread again and noted some links I included to "The David Collection" of very high quality Islamic coins in Copenhagen are...
You are not mistaken. It is Spengler and Sayles 33. Husam al-Din Yuluq Arslan AH 580-597. AD 1184-1201 Struck AH 581. AD 1185/6. Obverse: male...
"Pompey Magnus lifetime portrait" Roman Provincial Coinage volume II has these Pompeioplois coins minted under Domitian....
There is a book, Bruck, with numbers in a major collection. I cite it and extract the numbers for the various FTR types at the top of this page:...
It has been a long time since I posted anything about updates to my sale site: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html Usually I don't bother since...
Constantius II is fun to collect and I recently started a thread on his coins at Numis Forums:...
I gave that post a "like" long ago, but looking at it again I think it is worth more that just a "like". Congratulations! Those are beautiful...
I like Leu and have won with them many times. Often the invoice takes more than a week to arrive. (It must not be automated. Biddr auctions send...
I collect widely including coins from some pretty obscure series. Small firms that auction generally low-value coins by the thousands do a...
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