The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World shows many of the major mining locations and what was mined from them. I can't think of another book which...
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Mar 1, 2006 10:44 am
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A couple years ago, there was an article about a modern mining company's attempt to locate and re-open an egyption gold mine. I think it mentioned some...
... Andrew, note also Francois Widemann's interesting comments on Central Asian and North Indian silver mines and resources, with further bibliography; ...
I am continuing to pursue a growing interest in the metallurgy of ancient coins. I already have copies of: Metallurgy in Numismatics, Volumes 1-4 Cope's work ...
The following are all personally recommended - see my website for a decent list of books http://hometown.aol.co.uk/ahala/ Campbell, William, _Greek and Roman...
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Hi , there was a Roman mine opposite from where I live ( I can see it from my window ) though it was originally a native British mine which i think produced...
Dear List, Anthony's recent story about British miners getting revenge on the Romans by not telling them about potential poisoning from lead is fun but...
Speaking of small coins, I have an AR fraction that is 6mm that I have not been able to attribute. Perhaps someone here might. The reverse, from the looks of...
Vince, Of course, the coins themselves carry no denomination mark and there is no acient literary source to tell us what the denomination is, so modern...
Dear Vince & All, Some time back I bid on a coin said to be a Litra thinking that it was the coin which you attach in your post. I won the coin and was...
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Mar 2, 2006 1:22 am
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Dear List Members, Here's something I have thankfully not run into often - I am still waiting for two coins (over $1000 in value) to arrive from a major...
Beast: I sympathise, but in this country (UK) 3 months is the amount of time that the Post Office gives itself to investigate the loss of a registered package....
Dear List, A little younger than ancient, some of the coins I am studying with 'city view' reverses are German medieval of 12th-13th century. References given...
Hello Robin, That's what I was wondering - so I should really wait a couple more months before I should expect any results. Thanks for the confirmation, ...
Hello Zach Three months is the waiting period imposed by most European postal offices before admitting a claim for loss.. I guess that the coins were mailed ...
From Grierson's Bibliographie Numismatique (2nd edition), I'd guess the second is Bonhoff, F: Peus sales of 27 Oct 1977 and 8 June 1978 ("allem., surtout...
You seem to be correct: RIC IX, p. 215, no. 20, should read "As no. 3". There is no illustration provided, but RIC 20 does cite the two Cohen numbers,...
Dear List, So I don't appear to be lazy I checked out my few German Numismatic Co. Auction catalogues and found two of the reference I was looking for....
Dear All, Consider the case, an elderly gentleman owns a collection of valuable coins that was in his possession for in excess of 70 years. He sells the...
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Mar 3, 2006 3:03 am
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From a current listing on a well-known auction site: "Original old Japan sword over 100 years old with coinage we auctions here a very much old piece of our...
On Saturday, Tom and I will be celebrating the one year anniversary of Common Bronze! We would just like to say that we are grateful and humbled by your...
Moneta-List In the Winter of 2005, the ANS magazine published a glib, very critical and very flawed unsigned review (by Oliver Hoover) of my book: "The...
Suhle war Mitarbeiter an dem von Schroetter herausgegebenen "Wörterbuch der Münzkunde" (Berlin, 1930) und Mitherausgeber der "Berliner numismatischen...
Dear List, Thanks to everyone for the references to Medieval German coins. The Suhle book I was looking for is A. Suhle, 'Das Munzwesen Magdeburg unter...
The IRS very helpfully (and not surprisingly) has a tax just for this purpose. Capital gains on "collectibles" are taxed at a flat 28%, so your gentleman...
Dear All, I want to thank everybody that responded to my questions but I'm not clear about how to advise the people I'm trying to help. So lets look at the...
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