A small hole in the iron curtain of political correctness? ASOR decides knowledge is more important than provenance ... under some circumstances Dave Welsh ...
list, i've opened a new section on doc at http://dirtyoldcoins.com/scrapple/index.htm please advise if this is of interest. it's a big time commitment to scan...
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Dec 1, 2004 9:41 am
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Ras, Extremely useful. I was actually looking for a photo of lot 1370 in NAC-I within the last week, and there it is! It may be worthwhile checking the...
Dear Dave and List, Offhand this learned professor's "generosity" about unprovenanced Iraqi artifacts sounds like a neat attempt to get "free artifacts" for...
Priscilla
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Dec 1, 2004 1:13 pm
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December 1, 2004 Greetings Reid Goldsborough and Fellow Ancient Coin Enthusiasts! I too think you are referring to Britannia metal which is a lead-less pewter....
Here are some further musings on this overextended topic; In this age of stupidity Bill Clinton was designated our first "black " president by some people,...
Talking about Jesus as black or as from Asia. Did you know God was from Sweden? How? Wh? In the bible is quoted, that God gave the flowers and plants names....
Dear Tom, I suspect the attribution the dealer made was a good faith attempt based on Sear. Your coin is #417 in Price and is actually pictured (unlike many ...
For interested, I uploaded the best copy of the Septimius Family Portrait to the Photo section of the group here. NOte, that Geta's protrait was defaced. If...
For Royal Numismatic Society members, the on line renewal page is up and running. The web address is: www.rns.dircon.co.uk Gary Waddingham waddingham@... ...
I agree with Nathan that this thread has gone overlong, but just wanted to say that the significance this subject has to 21st century Americans (and other...
Mark wrote: << The people who lived in ancient times were both very like us and greatly unlike us in many surprising ways. Like people in all ages, their...
... Priscilla, I don't think you understand the academic environment regarding artifact publications. This is a actually a very significant development, and I...
Dear Jeff, An interesting speculation, but even if they are the same person, I'm disinclined to accept that it is Sulla, especially given the obverses....
Actually, I have thought about this before and appreciated the conversation. IMHO it is a topic suitable for discussion so long as discussing race doesn't...
Some responded to my post stating that I wanted to end the thread because of "political correctness," which is not the case. The fact is as I stated before...
Dear Dave, I didn't realize that kind of censorship still existed in the US. What's to prevent the owner or a viewer of an unprovenanced artifact from showing...
Priscilla
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Dec 1, 2004 7:09 pm
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Priscilla, That's precisely why these folks and the legislation they are helping sponsor is such a threat - and a virtual return to the dark ages - their ...
Dear Dave, You seem to know so much about the subject you should write an expose: how far have we really traveled since the days when Copernicus and the like...
Priscilla
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Dec 1, 2004 8:00 pm
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... Dear Ben and Beast, Here is a chi-rho on the shield on a Crispus AE3. The type is also illustrated in the Hunter collection, volume 5: ...
Hi Kenneth, I suppose the time period is my main reason. During Sulla's dictatorship, with proscriptions and a reign of fear, perhaps this issue is a sort of ...
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Dec 1, 2004 8:21 pm
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Hi Tom and all, I have to agree with Gary that in this circumstance that a separate B and A most likely stands for BA(sigma)I(lambda)E(omega)(sigma) [King]...
Friends: It's been about a year since I've posted any sort of selling update to this forum. With the holidays coming up I just wanted to post a one time...
Jack, Note how Dr Mann "rushed to Balhara's village after a distant relative tipped her off regarding the coins." India is terribly poor at village level, and...
... I intend to (when I can find time) put together a web presence that tells the collectors' side of the issue. There will be a certain amount of what you...
Yes, indeed. Let me conclude by saying that I thought that after 50 years of Freshman art history courses, world wide, in which everyone learns that ...
Joe, Whatever the interpretation, the type described by Ruzicka and taken over from him by Varbanov is definitely the "putto extinguishing torch" type you...
hi all, here is something i did not know prior to some research, MA issued his legionary coinage in aureii's. they were issued for legions II, VI, XII, XIII,...
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