Seldom-offered antiquities, fine art, rare documents and fine antiques are crossing the block at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ three-day sale Nov. 3-5. A seldom-seen selection of ancient pottery from Read More +
t’s fascinating (but not surprising) to see the great response to our feature on affordable antiquities and the short article on Widow’s Mites coins. Budget-wise collecting can be found on our side of the pond as well. Sales of Native American arrowheads are commonplace and most sell for just a few dollars. Read More +
Coins known as Widow’s Mites were not Roman coins but were in fact true Judean coins and are named because of a story in the Bible about a poor widow woman who gave her last two lepton bronze coins to the treasury of the Jewish temple. Read More +