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1y ago
Can anyone help me find a 1972 one cent coin from Co‑operative Republic of Guyana? Any condition. I am also interested in corresponding with anyone collecting the coins of modern Guyana ..read more
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1y ago
Works published 95 years ago became public domain today.
The ANS library has 99 numismatic books published in 1927.
1927 wasn't a big year for numismatic works. The only book published in 1927 that I have read, and that was reprinted, is George Hill's Select Greek Coins. This work didn't become public domain today. It was published in the UK, and already became public domain in 2018 or 2019, 70 years after Hill's passing.
You won't find Select Greek Coins online. Google Books only knows it by the unauthorized 1974 reprint ..read more
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1y ago
Last week I mentioned the so-called Sponsian gold coin.
Dr. William Hunter began to collect coins in about 1770, spending over £22,000. By the time of his death in 1783 he had 12,000 ancient Greek coins and a similar quantity of Roman coins.
The Greek coins were published the 1890s in three volumes (v1, v2, and v3; the author was George Macdonald). Some of the coins, like this tetradrachm, are unique.
vol. 2 p. 274 #6, pl. 48 #10) 13.6g 26.5mm
Although hemidrachms of this denomination are common in museum collections, this tetradrachm is unique. Nothing like it has shown up in 300 years.
This ..read more
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1y ago
The “Sponsian” coin might be legit. I don't think it is Roman, and I don't think any Romans had an emperor named Sponsian.
The artistic style doesn't look Roman, nor does it look like the bronze barbarous radiates struck in Gaul imitating Roman coins.
What it looks like is this:
4.7g, 19.5mm
This is a gold aureus. It is from Andrei Sergeev's collection and currently in the State Historical Museum in Moscow. The photo is from the book Barbarian Coins on the Territory Between the Balkans and Central Asia (Moscow 2012; it is coin #224). It is with other coins found 'between the Balkans and the Dn ..read more
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2y ago
Next weekend, Friday-Sunday, is the FLAME Conference at Princeton university. The conference is both in-person and virtual. Sunday will feature a panel on "digital numismatics" with Ethan Gruber (ANS), Dr. David Wigg-Wolf (German Archaeological Institute), Mark Pyzyk (Princeton University), and Pavle Jovanov (FLAME freelancer at Princeton). For more infor on FLAME see https://coinage.princeton.edu ..read more
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2y ago
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2y ago
rNumis.com has been steadily adding digital auction catalogs for several years. As of January 2, they have a database of 4565 catalogs, 1579 of which include links to digital versions of the catalog.
The site also includes a proof-of-concept provenance research tool for Greek coins of Italy and Sicily. There is no full-text search but the coins of each Greek city can be filtered by weight and metal. Best: if a coin has multiple auction apperances, such as this Akragas tetradrachm, the full auction chain is displayed.
As always, the site contines to offer numismatic literature for sale.
This si ..read more
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2y ago
D.F. Grotjohann, who has a VCoins store until about 2010, is now selling ancient coin NFTs at https://opensea.io/DFGrotjohann.
He has 13 ancient coins listed as well as two samurai cartoons. One of the coins is a nice looking Alexander Octodrachm. The price is 3.5. The currency of that price is Ethereum, which works out to US$15,532.
The buyer receives the ancient coin in addition to the digital rights.
Press release on einnews.com here ..read more
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2y ago
National Geographic gives a detailed look at how currency counterfeiting is done in the underworld of Lima, Peru. Mariana van Zeller interviews a convicted printer, visits a currently operating printer and as well as a finisher. A money mule explains how to sneaks cash into the US.
You can watch the complete 47 minute episode on NationalGeographic.com or on Hulu ..read more
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2y ago
Here are two auction sales. (Not eBay.)
The upper coin sold for about $300+fees. The lower coin sold for about $600+fees. I do not have access to the coins, I merely stumbled across the photos online.
My first impression was that I was looking at two different coins. At least one of the coins is a modern cast forgery.
Several people suggested that it was more likely that both pictures show the same coin, before and after a 'repair'.
I am curious what my readers think. In the comments, tell me if you think these are one or two coins, genuine or fake, repaired or not. I can tell you that the re ..read more