* Good: $2
* Fine: $3.5
* Very Fine: $6.5
* Extremely Fine: $9.5
* Uncirculated: $20
On Saturday, October 19, 1929, we learn that the Secretary of State for Commerce, Lamont, is experiencing difficulties in obtaining from state funds the 100,000 dollars necessary for the maintenance of the yacht Corsair, including the financier John Pierpont Morgan just donated to the government. Th
This bust, probably the portrait of an aristocrat from the 1st century BC. J.-C., was brought to light in the Côtes dArmor • INRAP / SERVICE DE PRESSE We talk about it less than the publication of the last Asterix. However, a Gallic discovery in Brittany deserves the spotlight:the discovery in T
An old map of the world and continents from 1635. An unusual cartographic curiosity from the archives of history. See a detailed 17th century map of the world by Dutch cartographer Willem Blaeu. Map of the 17th century world This remarkable old world map was compiled on the basis of the atlas o
Detail of a bas-relief from Trajans Column, Rome. 2nd century AD. AD • ISTOCKPHOTO Contrary to what his name seems to indicate, the centurion did not command 100 men, but a staff of between 60 and 100 soldiers – more often 60 than 100, moreover. This number is enough to make him not a non-commis