I’ll admit to being a hoarder (many rural Mainers are—“junk is what you call something you threw away a week before you realized what you needed...
Re the collective for hippocampus: It would likely depend on how we view the various parts of iconography and mythology, plus the linguistics....
A general comment, not narrowly coin-related: “Dark Ages” in scholarly circles has not been used since the mid-20th century, though, like...
Errr, guys, the slabs from NGC, PCGS, etc, are SEALED, by design. Any residual gasses from wood or cardboard storage containers will not...
[NB: I sent this a week ago but it seems to have gotten lost. Pardon my resend, in case I overlooked the earlier one.] A new and—for obvious...
A personal reflection only: after decades of casual collecting, I started collecting coins which had intersecting interest for the history they...
Skywalker: please note that I prefaced my remark by stating it was a statement of PERSONAL aesthetics. It was limited to one tiny offshoot...
A comment of personal aesthetics here: I have a few examples of the genuine phenomenon, distinctively American so far as I know, and...
I just did a quick scan of a couple dozen recent purchases, covering ancients from Minnesota, France, and Germany, and others), plus several more...
The English segment of my family (which is the great majority—another chunk is Nipmuk) came here in 1630 (Massachusetts Bay Colony) and John...
Linguistically, a hyphen is used to indicate a close connection between the two nominals, especially if ambiguity could arise with more than two...
The cinch buckle is on the wrong side! The buckle normally is at the end of the left side of the cinch, with the tongue on the right. No wonder...
ing horses.
I am new to this forum and, though I started collecting casually as a child—am now at 76 only relatively new at serious collecting. So maybe my...
OK—this makes sense (though why the FG that is CLOSE to the monument is called “wide” instead of “close” is a new puzzle. Finally, does DCAM mean...
I tried to ask this earlier but apparently it never “took”. Pls pardon my ignorance but I have not found an answer in any lexicon (including...
It has long been standard museum practice to write an acquisition or catalogue number in India ink on objects, so long as the marks could be...
I am pretty new to serious collecting (though I’ve been a casual collector for decades) so pls accept my apologies for this ignorance. I have...
And also the source of a quotation I use very frequently: “Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.”
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