By Jeremy Bostwick – Senior Numismatist & Cataloger, Stack’s Bowers …… Even if you’re not a professor of art history or a dealer in the high-end art world, you’re likely familiar with names such as Picasso, van Gogh, and Rembrandt. Those appellations instantly evoke the artistic styles for which they are known and admired and […]
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CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series by Mike Markowitz for CoinWeek ….. ANCIENT PEOPLE WHO lived around the shores of the Mediterranean were intimately familiar with the marine life around them. Fish were a critical resource for these societies, figuring prominently in their culture, art, and mythology from very early times. When coinage came into wide […]
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In Part I of Talking Ancient Coins, collector Mike Beall sits down with CoinWeek Ancients writer Mike Markowitz to take a numismatic tour of the ancient world. Discussed in this 45-minute episode are examples of the earliest known ancient coins, archaic coins from ancient Greece, the signed dekadrachms of Sicily, large-sized Aes Gracia As […]
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CoinWeek Ancients writer Mike Markowitz joins David Guest at the New York International Numismatic Convention to discuss one of the most famous and important coin in the history of the world, The Dekadrachm of Syracusa. This silver coin, worth more than a month’s salary of a soldier, at the time it was struck, today […]
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