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In Paris, there is a row of coin dealers down the block from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, close to the Louvre. I was there last summer and picked up this Merovingian tremissis from iNumis. T… (View Post)

If you couldn’t find it in the old Seaby catalogs, it’s always possible Seaby bought it from another auction in 81 and did a quick flip. I can check my auction catalogs this weekend from that time pe… (View Post)

Check out Baldwins in London on The Strand. The FitzWilliam museum in Cambridge has an exceptional medieval British coin collection (View Post)

Nice coin, good details. It’s interesting that the Brits have so many different names for their 20 shilling denomination. I can think of at least 6: -Sovereign -Pound -Unite -Laurel -Broad -Guinea (View Post)

I have been meaning to get one of these coins. I’ve loved airships since I was a kid. Last year I flew on a modern zeppelin in Germany, a semi-rigid “blimp sized” airship, much smaller than the massi… (View Post)