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A Gift For Polydektes
26.03.2023
Can anyone help me find a 1972 one cent coin from Co‑operative Republic of Guyana ? Any condition. I am also interested in corresponding w...
01.01.2023
Works published 95 years ago became public domain today. The ANS library has 99 numismatic books published in 1927. 1927 wasn't a ...
29.11.2022
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 ...
rNumis.com has been steadily adding digital auction catalogs for several years. As of January 2, they have a database of 4565 catalogs,...
George Floyd, the Minnesota man who died last week during a botched arrest, was been accused by some reporters as being wanted for the forge...
I haven't posted in a while. Here is a photo of me in NYC during a height of the pandemic. La Moneda restaurant, Jerome south of 175th st
National Geographic gives a detailed look at how currency counterfeiting is done in the underworld of Lima, Peru. Mariana van Zeller ...
CoinWeek reported on December 27 that PCGS will partner with HID Global to begin embedding high security Near Field Communication (NFC) ...
Most Harlan Berk catalogs for Buy or Bid sales 168 to the present and Gemini VI through XIV are available on issuu.com . These are the cata...
A Gift for Polydektes blog is excited to announce that Dr. Jonas Emmanuel Flueck will be presenting a detailed look at the ancient coin pro...
The auction house Classical Numismatic Group has an excellent web site with a good search engine that can be used to study over 300,000 co...
On March 24, 2020 archive.org released for unlimited borrowing the 1.4 million book titles they call the National Emergency Library. They...
Native States Alinagar (AN) Alwar (AL) Arkot (AR) Assam (AS) Awadh (AW) Bahawalpur (BA) Bajranggarh (BJ) Bajranggarh...
I tried to XRF an archaic Greek coin in an NGC slab. I got very strange results: LE 97.82%; Ag 2.15% (Silver); Au 0.024% (Gold); Pb 0.01...
Lorenzo Totaro reports for Bloomberg that Italy’s Mafia Uses the Old Lira as Its Own Parallel Currency (June 15) This Local Italy, no byli...
Portugal, uncertain year. David Oliveira . 315 g; 3.5” / 89mm The obverse of this medal depicts the bronze statue of former dictator Antó...
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 ...
Last week I mentioned the so-called Sponsian gold coin. Dr. William Hunter began to collect coins in about 1770, spending over £22,000. ...
Peter Hobson reports for Reuters on “ Fake-branded bars ”. These aren't bars that are short of gold. The fakes are said to contain legit ...
On the night of 20-21 February, 1977 at least 6000 ancient coins were stolen from the National Archaeological Museum in Naples , Italy. ...
Next weekend, Friday-Sunday, is the FLAME Conference at Princeton university. The conference is both in-person and virtual. Sunday will f...
The 19th century forger Becker discovered he could make his product seem genuine by applying artificial wear. It seems some modern forge...
The coin: Indo-Greek, Menander I (165-135 BC), drachm 2.34g 16mm The obverse Greek inscription: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥ ( Basileos S...
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 ...
I recently noticed that Corpus Nummorum Online is greatly enlarged. Many new coins, and a new search engine. This project is worth keepin...
What can artificial intelligence and image processing tell us about coins? Zachary Taylor of the American Numismatic Society gave a walk...
Harlan Berk catalogs going back to #1 are online at the Newman Numismatic Portal. I have had very poor luck searching for them in the NN...