A coin is a piece of hard material, traditionally metal and usually in the shape of a disc, which is used as a form of money. Traditionally the value of a coin comes from the intrinsic value of the component metal, but in modern times most coins are made of a base metal and their [...]
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What exactly is a coin?
November 15th, 2012 
Rigo 
Posted in Ancient Coins, US Coins, World Coins 
Tags: coin collecting, coins, us coins, world coins 
2 Comments »Ancient Coin Collecting
November 21st, 2011 Rigo Ancient Coins as Collections Collecting coins is so much fun! It is both a hobby and a source of income for many. One type of coin that you may want to consider collecting is ancient coins. Many collectors hesitate to buy ancient coins to collect because they can be terribly expensive. What is most important [...]
Posted in Ancient Coins, World Coins Tags: ancient rome, coin civilizations, coin eras, greek, persian No Comments »Greece: Trivial coin facts
November 3rd, 2011 Rigo 6th century BC The King Croesus of Lydians, in Asia Minor, issued the first money of gold -an oblong piece-. Soon the Greeks began minting money in the shape of discs, striking them with detailed high relief. Romans introduced the familiar serrated edges of today’s coins as a way to discourage the practice of shaving [...]
Coins Of Great Artistic Beauty
November 3rd, 2011 Rigo The early artistic development of coins is divided into three categories. Archaic Greek Coins The first is the Archaic coin category (510-480 B.C). In the “Archaic period” coins were fairly crude by later standards. They were mostly small disk-shaped lumps of gold, silver, or bronze, stamped with a geometric design or symbol to indicate its [...]
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