My son is in St. Charles parish. I heard from him Monday (land line) that they had water, gas, and telephone but no electric. Power poles and trees are down...
I wonder if that can be the explanation for this coin that I asked the group about a few weeks ago: http://mypage.iu.edu/~gsimonel/Temp/Commodus.JPG The style,...
This coin is unquestionably modern: http://tinyurl.com/82ncd I've seen it before; I think it may be a Slavey, but in any case, there is absolutely no chance,...
In a message dated 9/1/2005 5:29:18 AM Pacific Standard Time, jomilyd@... writes: This coin is unquestionably modern: http://tinyurl.com/82ncd I've seen it...
KenMartins@...
Sep 1, 2005 12:34 pm
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Please excuse the cross-posting. The late spring and early summer months of 2005 once again found the dedicated archaeology professionals of the Italian...
Dear Group, What are the current standards for analysing the make-up of coinage? Colin Kraay's interesting booklet "The Composition of Greek Silver Coins:...
I am interested to know how alot of these big sellers dealing ancient coins on ebay ect source there coins. As i watch some of these dealers move huge amounts...
Tom and Group: I actually just moved to Meadville, MS two months ago. This is in the SW part of MS, 90 miles from the MS coast. We were blessed relatively...
Bradley J. Bowlin
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Sep 1, 2005 5:02 pm
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... Those are both technically medieval coins, not ancient. However, I have examined thousands of Sasanid drachms, and the only clipped ones I have seen were...
My comments apply from the mid-fourth century onward, but it seems Robert has not yet addressed the large quantities of clearly unofficial nomisma weights that...
... gold is because folks knew each gold piece was going to be check- weighed! :-) ... the reason we see clipped silver is because siliquae were thin enough ...
... weights >that exist (and the virtual if not complete lack of corresponding weights for >silver coins). These indicate to me that there was an enormous...
Nice post, Robert. A few observations: 1) Yes, most of the N weights are at least 5th century or later, but there also exist quite a variety of weights marked...
To start with, pure gold is softer than pure silver. If anything, the 98% fine gold used in late Roman coinage is even softer (read: easier to clip) than the...
... I have also examined thousands of Sasanid drachms. I have half a dozen without countermarks, that were clipped to the point that the outer features of the...
I have purchased 5 coins from them... no problems... I would like to cautian that I am new to collecting, so I guess they could be fakes and I would never...
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Sep 1, 2005 9:54 pm
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... I would like to point out that the one I sent the link to, copies a Byzantine design of the late 6th century AD, and so could not date earlier. But it was...
I have purchased 2 from Ancient Auction House and 1 from antiquarica... again, no problems, but do not feel that I am seasoned enough to say that I received...
Thank you... I am going to try to get this list out tonight Glenn Simonelli <gsimonel@...> wrote:I hope you will consider adding my name to your list....
the purity or softness of the metal has nothing to do with why or why not a given coin was clipped. it's the fact that you can clip a thin coin with scissors...
I have 28 listing that were recomended by submissions from Moneta L. A couple things I want to mention: 1) I am not trying to represent that the list is fool...
Scissors? One doesn't need scissors to obtain metal from the edge of a soft coin. Indeed, that is why reeding was eventually added to coinage - to show very...
Ras is "on the money" here. The reason that we see clipping become widespread in the medieval period is the broad, thin (thus easily clipped) flans initiated ...
Reeding, and the placement of mottos (such as "DECVS ET TVTAMEN") around the edges, to stop clipping was done to thicker rather than thinner coins - so it...
I agree that until Constantine the Great reformed the gold coinage with the introduction of the solidus circa 310 the weighing of gold coins would have been...
Based on averages from auctions over the past five years or so. Now online at http://www.ancientcoinvalues.com/31.html Automated updates and additional series...
I think you are on the right track, but missing part of the picture. Virtually all ancient coins (very few exceptions) are struck on cast flans which natural...
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