Learn how to see what the value is in your collection.

See how bullion value affects some items and has no effect on others.

See why being rare does not mean valuable.

Look at ways to organize your collection.

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Learn how to clean and protect your collection.

Learn what a Numismatist is and does and what the descriptions given mean.

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This coin of Thrace Island of Thasos was created and minted about 148 BC. Please look at the beautiful hair style including flowers. On the reverse we have Hercules not the image we think of today.


This unit of monetary exchange often illustrates great beauty and shows us images done with magnificent style. They were made with crude production equipment and yet life like images have been transferred to the planchets surface. Travel through time and see what was important to the people at a point in history as defined by the item in your hand. These were the newspaper of the ruling governments and often used as propaganda to blindly mislead its people.