A big reason people left coin talk was too many good people got banned for minor reasons. A little more consideration should be paid to the...
You are welcome!
Big thank you to Lord Marcovan for running the contest and to all who entered. Congratulations to the winners, hope you enjoy your prizes and it...
I think the rules of the forum need an overhaul. Banning for life people like Steve X6, Ken Dorney, furry frog does nothing for coin talk as a...
That is a great find Matt. I wonder if that is one of the three known ones or if this is a new fourth specimen? All of these numbers are somewhat...
Thanks Rob, for running this contest! John
If there was no free market for ancient items, anything made of silver or gold would be melted and sold for scrap in any developing country. The...
I love the funky artistic style of this series.
Glad your daughter likes the coins. :-)
Show me an auction where every collector in any reasonably defined ancient coin field are all paying attention and bidding at the same time. Is...
Really sorry to hear about his passing. He was an inspiration to me by maintaining his passion for coins, calligraphy and many other things...
I love the hand imagery, that is really striking. The Nabataean kingdom has a lot of fascinating mystery about it, which is one of my favorite...
What a stunning collection! Stay safe and hope better times are coming. John
100% positive feedback on ebay means nothing.... There are good eBay ancients sellers, some even post here. There are threads listing the good...
It is considered good etiquette to provide the names of fake sellers so other people can avoid them. So by all means tell us who sold you those...
You guys are a bad influence! :-) After perusing this thread, I decided to start collecting some of these beautiful world silver crowns, thalers,...
I expect they can remove the black stuff. Silver is fairly easy to safely clean if it is high purity.
I wasn't sure if this was a legit story or not. Too bad it wasn't as Barry wrote.
There are some nice bronze coins from Syracuse with Persephone, Artemis, or Apollo that might be more in your price range. Ancient Greek coins...
That is really interesting.
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