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 +
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Affordable Antiquities: Widow’s Mites coins hold history and a lesson
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 +
Affordable Antiquities: For less than $200 collectors are buying 2,000 years of human history
Samaritan oil lamp, 4th century A.D. found in Israel. length: 10 cm, $250. Courtesy of Trionfo Jerusalem by Melody Amsel-Arielli Collectors often spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on rare, museum-quality antiquities. Small, abundantly found pieces, however, are often very affordable. … Read More +