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While the classical European-centric historical divisions of ancient/medieval/modern are largely meaningless in the Chinese series, I'd agree that the Qing Dynasty is usually regarded as "m… (View Post)

PCGS posted in their official thread on the subject that they are effectively re-defining the word "ancients" so as to include Chinese cash coins. (View Post)

Yes; compared to the ancient Greek coinage series, we know a lot about the ancient Roman coin series, not only from the inscriptions on the coins themselves but from surviving written records. After … (View Post)

It should definitely not have stars below the portrait (those should be privy marks) and it should also definitely have a nice clear mintmark under the wreath on the obverse - "A" and "… (View Post)

US silver (or at least formerly-silver) denominations - specifically the quarter, half, and silver dollar - are all essentially based on the measurements of the Spanish 2, 4 and 8 reales coins. Which… (View Post)