Monday 16 September 2013

It seems, "I AM Mr Ancient Coin !"


If we look at the coiney blogs at the moment, to judge from the three most commonly quoted, I am "Mr Ancient Coin", as I seem, unwittingly have become the subject of an awful lot of blogging about ancient coins (see about every other post in "Cultural Property Observer", "Ancient Coins" and "Ancient Coin Collecting" blogs), not exactly I would have thought doing a lot to promote a good image of collectors. There are a lot of insulting comments about people who hold different views, but no real presentation of why the rest of us should accept theirs.

5 comments:

Dorothy King said...

Yes, but the emperor looks very cool in his sunglasses ... although perhaps the Emperor has new clothes?

Paul Barford said...

I'm waiting for the metal detectorist comments on the inscription.

David Knell said...

Ha! Love the glasses and inscription! What's on the reverse? Justitia with a chained captive coin dealer and his cornucopia of uncleaned dug-ups at her feet?

Paul Barford said...

Not yet, but the idea is tempting !

Hidden History said...

What denomination is it, as it looks like an As

 
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