I was earlier this morning reviewing new journals in our library and found a marvelous photo in the Jan. - Feb. 2022 issue of Minerva. It is a...
Dear CoinTalker Friends, If anyone has an 1895 Sotheby's coin sale catalog, I would be most grateful to learn whether a coin in my...
A colleague in my department earlier today shared this link with me. Not understanding it in the least, except with some dim thought that it means...
As I rummaged through a seldom-visited box of coins at the bank the other day I ran across two old friends with whom I had not spent time in ages....
“It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” Well, perhaps, if lacking in sound and fury, I agree it is a tale...
To borrow from Macbeth… “It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” Well, perhaps, if lacking in sound and...
I like to think I have some refinement of taste; after all, my music preferences run to Carolyn Arends, The Who, Tom Petty, The Beatles, Lou Reed,...
I had a most curious dream last night. I was examining a Palaeologan silver coin in the collection of my friend, Bill M__, and translating for him...
Every coin tells a story, first, about its users, then much later, perhaps, about its subsequent custodial collectors; if we could only hear it! I...
Barry Murphy has recently shared with us some beautiful examples of just a few of the 2 million reasons he loves his job, and I surely appreciate...
On Tuesday 29 May 1453 an Ottoman army of ca. 80,000 men, led by Sultan Mehmet II, captured the city of Constantinople after a 53 day siege,...
Dear Coin Talk friends, May I impose upon the Sasanian experts out there by asking for attribution help for the 4 coins whose photos are...
Dear Online Friends, My step-daughter, who lives in the U. K., wants to bring to me several boxes of her deceased father's ancient coins so...
Around 35 years ago I shifted my numismatic interests from general Greek and Roman coins to late Roman and more specifically, Byzantine coins. But...
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