Is anyone else here as bummed as I am about Norm Macdonald dying yesterday? And to keep it on-topic, here is something he posted a couple years...
I'm a low-budget collector... I've yet to pay more than about ninety dollars for a coin. It was my birthday a couple weeks ago though and I was...
I don't think it was our friend Buyblahblah this time: [MEDIA]
Hi All, I recently got these Cherronesos hemidrachms in the mail and was hoping to get some feedback. They look a little funny, but are from a...
Three years into collecting ancients and I just learned that tridrachms are a thing:...
At least this guy was considerate enough to make it entertaining: [ATTACH]
Another question for the crew. I found a guy selling a number of coins that look like the coin below, which is being sold as an Ionia...
Hi All, I got a few coins in the mail the other day and one, an Augustus Denarius, arrived in two decent-sized pieces and a million smaller pieces...
This is friggin amazing. It makes me wonder what kinds of details are still hidden on coins I've thought I cleaned, or on coins that were...
That is a crazy-looking lion. The dreadlock-looking mane makes it more like a Pokemon than anything from third-century Rome. Either this is a...
I was wondering if any of you know the ID for this coin. I've spent a lot of time in the last few days browsing ebay and different sections of...
Another question for our community of experts: I collect budget (or low-end, or cheap, or euphemism) coins. My big bank-breakers are a pair of...
Hi Guys! Another question for the experts here at cointalk: I bought a siglos from Savoca Coins that showed up in the mailbox yesterday. It...
sorry.. posted to the wrong forum..
I just posted some fish in a previous thread, and it was suggested a thread get started just for the tunnies, and since thread-starting makes me...
If you do a search on Vcoins or Ebay for Pontos, you see a TON of coins that are cleaned down to the bronze, a much higher percentage than other...
This post is a little bit inspired by the slabbing thread taking place this morning: The most annoying (verging on obnoxious--obnoxious I say)...
I've been wondering about the future of coin authentication for a while. It seems like we currently have two main options: David Sear and NGC (I...
Earlier this year I bought one of those Thracian tetradrachms with Dionysos on the obverse. It was beat up and broken, but the condition put it...
I have a coin with a spot of bronze disease. I think it's stabilized, or maybe I just hope it's stabilized. At any rate, I'm very open to the...
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