Not long ago, I viewed a Youtube video documenting a group of metal detectorists in the UK uncovering a huge hoard of coins. I know my thinking is...
Once again, I "collected" coins mostly vicariously this year (as I’ve done for several years running), through members of CT and CCF. I actually...
No deep, esoteric numismatic insights here. Just a funnier-than-usual Elymaean. Coins from the Arsacid dynasty of Elymais are often...
Amusing misattribution on VCoins this morn. The coin is a bronze dichalkous of Vologases III, 105-147 AD. (Sellwood 79.50) The obverse depicts...
(Painful as it was, I felt obligated to carry on the longstanding - though sporadic - tradition of this forum’s provocative teasers. To my credit,...
Fifteen of my fave not-coins, below. (I'll attempt ten in the first post, five more after) My collecting focus took a wrong turn at Albuquerque...
A couple of years ago, on an April 1st morn, I posted some silly mash-up’s of coins that included the following: [ATTACH] This morning there...
Some of my favs of 2018, starting with Elymaeans (including a van't Haaff plate coin, third one down), then some Parthian tets and, finally, a...
I recently spotted the following coins for sale. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but something bothers me about them. Something just feels...
Got an email announcing a new dealer at the V mall. Checked out the inventory, including these three below. I don't collect Romans and, so,...
The Arsacid era began when Arsakes (Arsakes I) was elected leader of a Central Asian Dahae tribe called the Parni, and then proceeded to wrest...
On the occasion of my picking up only my 10th Parthian fraction (thank you, Parthicus!), I thought I’d provide some information about these...
I am so in awe of the discriminating eye – the collecting prowess – the remarkable acquisition skills – displayed by the owners of Athena...
Within my Parthian collection I have a growing subset of Parthian tiara-type tetradrachms. I’ve posted these at Coin Community Family, and...
Despite about a quarter century of collecting, prior to this summer I had never snagged a plate coin. Somehow lately they seem to be just falling...
Just want to make sure fans of The Celator magazine, which folded in 2012, know that issues are being digitalized by Wayne Sayles and uploaded...
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