My win from the New York Sale, last week, is a grosso of Sixtus IV-- the first papal coin to feature a realistic portrait (dies attributed to the...
I won a coin from London Coins for the first time over the weekend. I was slightly annoyed that there was no transparency about the bid system...
One year ago @Jochen1 posted a wonderful thread of the same examining the mythological figure of Ganymede—the lover of Zeus and cupbearer to the...
I just spent almost my whole stimulus check on a single coin. It's the single coin that's been on my wantlist longest since I (re)started...
I know there are a myriad threads addressing how to treat bronze disease but I have a couple of slightly different questions. I just bought a...
I just got my first siliqua. I've been after one of Constans' for a long time. [ATTACH] Constans I (337-350 AD). Siliqua (silver). 340-350 AD...
For the past several years I've been working on a collection of historically important ancient, medieval and early modern women. As this is a...
High on my want list for a long time has been a coin featuring Ganymede on the reverse. I've yet to achieve this goal, but in my research I came...
I just won my first coin from Noble in Australia. I'll reveal it in due course, but I've gotten so superstitious lately with all the covid related...
I would like to share with you two recent acquisitions. They are both beautiful, rare, anepigraphic, enigmatic, classicizing, and quintessentially...
I have just received in the mail one of the great rarities of Milanese coinage, the testone of Bona di Savoia: [ATTACH] Duchy of Milan. Bona di...
Browsing the Roma Auction in the middle of the night last night, looking for lots I might be interested in to share shipping with my main target...
I just got my first coin of the spanish king/holy roman emperor/(nearly) universal monarch, Charles V. I saw it at NYINC and it's been nagging at...
Years ago, when I was reading Benvenuto Cellini's autobiography I was surprised to learn that he had minted coins. I went online, and after some...
I've had an extraordinary coin collecting year this year. 2018 marked my return to the hobby after a hiatus of about a decade, and my first time...
This weekend I won one of my top wantlist items from Artemide Aste: an original struck paduan by Giovanni da Cavino. And, I might add, I got it...
Way back in May, I won this coin of Galeazzo Maria Sforza, but Italian export licences being what they are, it did not arrive until today. The...
A few months ago I purchased a fake coin of Galla Placidia from Emporium Hamburg. They refunded my money (but only barely-- they wouldn't even...
I'm too impatient for the time machine to get back to the fifteenth century! And while there was already this thread on early dated coins, it was...
This is one of my favorite coins. I've had it for several months, but failed to give it a proper introduction. [ATTACH] Giovanni II...
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