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lordmarcovan liked ewomack's post in the thread Tiberius III Apsimar Æ Follis....

Yes, this arguably qualifies as a nicer specimen of the type. Many of the coins from roughly the first reign of Justinian II (685 - 695)...

lordmarcovan liked Collecting Nut's post in the thread Are they ancient or modern grafitto?.

I wonder what the LM stood for. :woot:

lordmarcovan posted a new thread.

WTS: Greece (Boeotia, Thebes): ca. 395-338 BC silver stater, ex-Eric P. Newman collection, NGC Ch VF

This exact coin sold on Heritage on July 14, 2021, for $1,200 USD. I bought it for considerably less than that on 27 February 2023,...

Forum: For Sale

lordmarcovan liked The Meat man's post in the thread New coin - a very special Commodus As.

Been awhile since I was this excited about a coin! :D I was browsing the new inventory of a well-known dealer and saw an as of Commodus...

lordmarcovan attached a file to the thread I finally got an owl!.

Congrats! It’s a nice milestone. Seems a decent deal for £90. It was decades before I had an Athenian owl. This one sort of fell into...

lordmarcovan liked Ajax's post in the thread I finally got an owl!.

It's certainly not the prettiest coin out there and its missing the reverse legend and two big test cuts but for 90£ shipped I'm not...

lordmarcovan replied to the thread Tranquillina- scarce enough to not see very often.

I think I had just over 100 different emperors and empresses (108, as I recall) in my old “A to Z” (Augustus to Zeno) collection (which...

lordmarcovan replied to the thread Eureka! Syracuse Hiero II AE27.

Nice bigger bronze.

lordmarcovan liked Homer2's post in the thread Eureka! Syracuse Hiero II AE27.

Ok, it's not that exciting. It is a fairly normal coin, but I like that story about the gold crown and Archimedes running naked through...

lordmarcovan replied to the thread Tiberius III Apsimar Æ Follis....

Crude, but cool. Interesting period. I know little about that era.

lordmarcovan liked ewomack's post in the thread Tiberius III Apsimar Æ Follis....

This is another example of "good enough for the type" since it emerged from that murky time between the late 7th and early 8th...

lordmarcovan liked Croatian Coin Collector's post in the thread Post your solidi here!.

Empire of the Romans Gold Solidus of Anastasius I (minted in Constantinople sometime between 491 and 518): [ATTACH]

lordmarcovan liked Codera's post in the thread Post your solidi here!.

[ATTACH] The one solidus (and gold coin, period) in my entire collection, I was hoping to get a tremissis I was watching recently but...

lordmarcovan liked Croatian Coin Collector's post in the thread Post your solidi here!.

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lordmarcovan liked FrizzyAntoine's post in the thread Post your solidi here!.

This is my only solidus, something I say with a twinge of regret given how much prices have increased across the board for this type...