I’ve found myself looking at a number of Celtic coins lately, but am unsure what references or catalogues are available to help identify them....
Well, in @Curtisimo’s top 10 index, I contemplated doing two separate lists this year (one for ancients, and one for medieval), but that seems to...
My most recent purchase straddles both the Ancient and early Medieval periods (or we could say late Antiquity instead of early medieval, but lord...
Hello all - I had been meaning to pick up a copy of volume III of Roman Silver coins by David Sear (the only one that’s out of print…). I found a...
I have been looking for a decent reference book for the coins of Bactria and India for my Numismatic library. While I once borrowed...
Sorry for the weird title, but I just know someone will see this outside the Ancients forum and start suggesting Lincoln cent albums or...
I am shocked to say that this has been a very good year for my collection. I did not have much enthusiasm for my collection when the year began,...
December 6th is St. Nicholas’ day. Today, the saint is most closely associated as the inspiration for Santa Claus, as the original saint was...
Many of my coins have it. They are afraid that they’ll be found out to be fakes and phonies. Well, they aren’t fakes (I hope...), but many of...
I’ve seen some weekly themed posts lately, and I thought it might be nice to have a general medieval pile-on thread! Feel free to post any...
A few years ago, a dealer at a coin show showed me an absolutely gorgeous Mezzanino Nuovo minted during the years of Doge Andrea Dandolo (r....
I’m rather excited by my recent acquisition, as I have been searching for a Scandinavian imitation of an English penny for some time now:...
It has widely been acknowledged that the first coin issued by the Normans in Normandy was a denier by William Longsword which featured a cross...
Large lot of 140 “uncleaned” ancients (most are uncleaned, about 45 are from an old lot I bought in the early 2000s and cleaned a little with an...
The below article originally appeared in Koinon: The International Journal of Classical Numismatics, Volume I. I have been assured by @Nicholas...
While I recall lurking on the board since December of 2014, I officially made an account and joined on this day five years ago. While I have been...
A recent acquisition of mine is by no means the prettiest of coins, but it does have an interesting story behind who has owned it. The coin is a...
Well, the following post will feel a little out of season, but that’s because I intended to post it in December and never got around to it....
As I was wandering around Twitter (for professional reasons believe it or not), I stumbled upon a twitter handle by Amelia Dowler (curator of...
Well, I am a little late to the party, but I was waiting for some coins to arrive in the mail. And while this is a Top 10 (and maybe a little bit...
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