What are the Best Numismatic Blogs?

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That's exactly what I was trying to get at in my own comments.

 

www.indiacoins.org

 

Coin Collectors Blog http://coinsblog.ws

 

http://www.cherrypickersgrotto.blogspot.com/

 

We have a Blog (mentioned above) that assists collectors of coins particularly Indian. The Blog supports (or perhaps is supported by) a new series of highly specific books on various series of Indian coins shown by a new method of display and translation. Within the blog are various advice sections for collectors. At the moment these consist of an article on coin storage and an article on the treatment of copper (bronze) disease. Both are written by world experts in these fields.
The problem, and we knew it would happen, is that everyone seems to have an opinion these days and is free to post it on their own Blog or on FB on elsewhere which tends to cause some dissent and debate, the waters get muddied, often dangerously so and the problem the experts were talking about becomes a bigger problem. So broadly, yes a blog contains many "personal" thoughts on various matters, but if a research group can muster the firepower to advise CORRECTLY on important matters surely these contributions can be included in a "normal" blog.

 

This is not at all the way I see the matter. The web sites I have valued most have been the work of one person. Unfortunately the absolute best example IMO was the huge site by the late Tom Mallon on ancient coins of India through the Near East. When Tom died earlier this year some of us downloaded sections but much of it was lost. He had great sections on reading Sasanian coins but no opinions and nothing dated. Another great one man site is Warren Esty's coverage of the Roman coins that are covered in Volume IX of the standard reference RIC. Warren's, like my web site on ancients, really can't be Blogs since they are older than the term (if you accept the Wikipedia information).

To me the difference is time. Blogs are time structured. Blogs are postings of whatever strikes the blogger on a given day. The information is usually ordered by date posted rather than by subject. Web sites tend to be subject structured. The web sites I mentioned had material posted ten years ago and this year but it really made no matter whether the information was 2004 or 2014 as long as it reflected what we currently consider the latest scholarship. That is why I like web sites better than books. If I learn something new about 2000 year old coins, I can go in an correct my posted error or omission of earlier time.

Web sites have a structure independent of the time they were written. In the case of ancient coins (all I know), this usually means an order by date or culture. Sub-sections could be written by more than one person but most I know cover a small part of the larger subject (Coins of Gallienus; Coins of Septimius Severus; Late Roman Coins). A few (like mine) try to cover the larger subject in a more cursory fashion but there are still ordered sections (culture or technical, for example). I link below a few sites I do not consider blogs that are all the work of one person each:

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/
http://www.grifterrec.com/coins/coins.html - now a dead link
http://esty.ancients.info/
http://bpmurphy.ancients.info/severan/severanhome.htm
http://www.beastcoins.com/

I do agree that the original question needed a firm definition of just what something must be to be considered a blog.

 

http://oldcurrencyexchange.wordpress.com/
1 - well illustrated, links to image gallery on Pinterest
2 - original thoughts + research (re-hashed stuff is on Twitter + Facebook a/c's)
3 - several of the posts are updated as new info / images become available
4 - simple, uncluttered design, easy to read English

 

After reading the 1st five entries, this blog is all stuff found in change and how many silver rounds are being sold by the US mint. I think they need to specify different types of blogs: e.g. old coins, silver buffalos, ancients, etc.

 

Thats why I stopped going to that site :/

 

I only just got back into the office after the Summer Seminar and saw this thread! I'm humbled to have been mentioned twice -- thank you!

I've also taken note of the other "nominees" ... there are quite a few there that were new to me, and so far they're just excellent. I can't wait to get home tonight to really dig into the other blogs!

 

I like http://www.wildwinds.com brill for ident old Romans.

 

Thank you for including me.

I am the owner and mostly administrator of CoinedForMoney.com or http://coinedformoney.blogspot.com/, both lead to the same humble blog.

The blog was started because I saw no place for common coins. There was no place for the old fashioned change finds. Everything at the time I started in 2005 was about MS-69 or Ultra Rare or paying hundreds or roll hunters. Of course I liked those other types of sites but I could not relate. Finding stuff in your change is awesome.

I've had over 32,000 comments on my blog most are asking if the 1944 cent they found is valuable but that is the point. To inform the public that most change finds are common yet still exciting to find.

99% of my post are original as well as the photos. Occasionally some news story about coins is just too good and I do rehash it. If I were the only one viewing my blog I would still post.

 

www.krcoins.com/blogs

Having been in the business for over 10 years--first working for a large numismatic firm and now out on my own-- I created a fully functioning website where I also post blogs semi-regularly about all kinds of coin-related issues: New coins, coin shows, eBay postings, jokes, etc. I also do coincasts, or short historical (and sometimes hilarious) videos relating to coins that we have in stock.

I'm sorry to have missed last week's post on the best coin sites, but I'm happy to see other blogs posted on here that I check out regularly. Anything to keep people involved and interested!