The History of Gold Coins Issued by USA | ABC article directory
Written by admin on January 25, 2009 – 11:00 pm -Later, in 1933, the Double Eagle coins were declared illegal. It was prohibited to own any of the gold coins , unless they had a collectible value Read the original post: The History of Gold Coins Issued by USA | ABC article directory Read More →
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Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Myth Detecting
Written by admin on January 24, 2009 – 12:14 am -As for how to search for ancient coins in the Old World, I think Mr Welsh would benefit from going on one of those metal detecting holidays organized by Jimmy Sierra and his English “metal detecting” pals and get some real experience of … The loot from this is then passed in bulk to the middlemen who themselves pick out for separate sale the more collectable items, coins in good condition, more complete artefacts, and then pass on the material to wholesalers who then .. Read the original: Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Myth Detecting Read More →
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(pre)texts: Grèce mensongère
Written by admin on January 22, 2009 – 11:30 pm -For the modernist sculptors and painters, who ransacked museum galleries and antiques shops searching for things primitive, Greece and the Renaissance were “the enemy” (a phrase I am borrowing from Henry Moore). … however academic or stale some periods in Greek art may be (he admits that towards the end of the Classical period this is often the case), its splendour and originality are overlooked by modernists (“les esprits frappés au coin du modernisme”) The rest is here: (pre)texts: Grèce mensongère Read More →
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Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Balkan …
Written by admin on January 21, 2009 – 1:15 am -The coins of course are not coming out of the ground alone, for the US market various types of artefacts imported from the Old World are segregated out and put into different “piles” (and some sellers will also mix objects from … An eBay seller on the Recommended dealers list is Ancient Treasures (Plamen Arsoff Granada Hills CA 91394, eBay ancient_treasures 37196 feedback). Read the original here: Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Balkan … Read More →
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Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Roman coin …
Written by admin on January 17, 2009 – 12:41 am -He then produces a justification of that view, basically saying that ancient coins do not come from archaeological sites at all. Well, they do not in California anyway, but he’s talking about the Old World, where: “individuals who have interviewed … He says (Moneta-L Smuggling and Reality Moneta-Ly Wed Sep 21, 2005) “The facts of the matter are that historical sites are very unrewarding places” (sic) to look for collectable coins . Read the original: Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Roman coin … Read More →
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Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: How to …
Written by admin on January 16, 2009 – 4:03 pm -(7) “relate that the best places to search for coins are the borders of ancient battlefields” . Really? I suppose they know where they are from old Roman campaign maps then? View original here: Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: How to … Read More →
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Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: US collector …
Written by admin on January 14, 2009 – 4:18 am -“ Ancient coins and artifacts are our collective heritage, not the heritage of individual countries”, so US collectors feel fully empowered to not bother about putting money into the pockets of those that steal what they want from those other … But to produce these collectable and “holdable” geegaws involves trashing unread a record of another history . One that, though the evidence survived millennia, does not survive the looter’s spade. Go here to see the original: Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: US collector … Read More →
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Numismatics and Archaeology: Italy Returns Thousands of Looted …
Written by admin on January 13, 2009 – 9:03 am -“Bulgaria will receive back from Italy close to 3800 antique coins and other archaeological objects, smuggled into the country in 2005, Bozhidar Dimitrov, director of the National History Museum said, quoted by Bulgarian language Sega daily on …. There is a new source of uncleaned ancient coins and nice quality antiquities on eBay, to which I invite your attention Read more: Numismatics and Archaeology: Italy Returns Thousands of Looted … Read More →
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Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Missing the …
Written by admin on January 12, 2009 – 11:47 pm -On the collectors’ “Unidroit-L” forum, Jim McGarigle (Polymath Numismatist) responds to the posting there of a link to Svetlana Guineva’s article ‘Italy to send back stolen antique coins confiscated in Verona’ from the Sofia Echo mentioned … The point is however not the “treasures returned”, but catching those that are destroying the real treasure, the archaeological resource from which these twelve-dollar geegaws were all snatched, trashing history as the diggers dug. .. More: Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Missing the … Read More →
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Fun Room: Cool Coin Collections
Written by admin on January 12, 2009 – 8:26 am -Probably the most popular types of coins that are sought by collectors are the antique coins . Antique coins may be bought from auction sales, coin shows, malls and even in tourist areas that have historical themes. Antique coins are found .. Here is the original post: Fun Room: Cool Coin Collections Read More →
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