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We’re a’Twitter

Caesar — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:21:34 +0000

The ancientcoinmarket has entered the 21st century and is now putting out a TWITTER feed. Follow the latest info on the coin collecting hobby: http://twitter.com/ancientcoin Re-Tweet This

More Greek Bronze

Caesar — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:00:38 +0000

I continue to be on a Greek Bronze kick; here’s a great one from Tom Cederlind on VCoins.Com: IONIA: EPHESUS. 280-258 BC. Bronze -16mm (4.70 gm). O: Bee within border of dots. R: Stag standing right. cf. SG. 4405var.. Charming and aVF. $125

I Love Greek Bronzes

Caesar — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:25:24 +0000

Greek bronzes can be an affordable way to collect ancient Greek Coins. They’re lovely little things, in any condition, at least to me! Ionia, Clazmenae AE10 Bronze, 10mm. Lind 441 Laureate head of Apollo right. Swan standing left, wings spread, head right. $35 from Barry and Darling at VCoins.Com. Enjoy!

Coin Of The Day

Caesar — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:15:32 +0000

I love looking around the Net for coins. I do it daily for my monthly column at Coin World. Browser-Window_Shopping always gives me ideas about what to write about, and keeps my interest in the hobby strong! So, a new blog here at Ancientcoinmarket: The Coin Of The Day. I’ll post a coin, [...]

The Circus Comes To Town

Caesar — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:52:34 +0000

When I was a boy, September always meant the coming of the circus with it’s many wild beasts. I can remember being fascinated by the lions, tigers and especially the elephants. The ancient Romans seemed to share my fascination, and emperors exploited this for their own public relations benefit. In one particular case, the Emperor TITUS (79-81 [...]

ACCG Benefit Auction Opens

Caesar — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:44:01 +0000

Right now, go to this link, bring your checkbook, and get ready to bid on some fantastic coins that are up for auction to benefit The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild. The Guild is an advocacy group created to insure that your right to collect ancient coins hangs around for the next generation. That right is [...]

New Ancient Coin Podcast

Caesar — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:38:41 +0000

For a while now, I’ve wanted to do a short podcast that showcases a few of the hundreds of ancient coins available for sale around the Internet. With so many coins coins available for sale at any given time, listeners might find it fun (and useful) to have one man’s opinion. The best way to [...]

A Collection of One

Caesar — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:19:57 +0000

Last month in my column in Coin World Magazine, I discussed what I might choose if I could only have one coin in my collection. Think about that folks–one coin. The column drew quite a lot of mail from folks; it seems to have captured your imaginations. I thought I’d take some blog space to further discuss [...]

Beginner’s Guide to Ancients

Caesar — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:54:37 +0000

Looking for an affordable beginner’s guide to collecting ancients? Well, if I might be allowed to brag, I wrote one many years ago and have sold hundreds of copies to satisfied customers! PIECES OF TIME: Collector’s Questions About Collecting Ancient Greek, Roman & Byzantine Coins was originally published in booklet form. CNG originally purchased hundreds [...]

The Hilarity of Amazon Content Links

Caesar — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:14:48 +0000

As you know, the costs of hosting ACM year after year are deferred by sales through Amazon.Com. And I appreciate it! Recently I turned on the “content links” feature for the new ACM website. This tells Amazon to crawl the content and insert product links around words that might be of interest to readers. Sometimes it [...]