Another egregious example of a tooled coin that nonetheless sold for a very high price is this Titus Colosseum sestertius, sold three years ago...
This statement itself is stupid, ignorant, and both. No, my dealer is none of these. Having been cited numerous times in auction catalogs, and...
When I first started collecting bronzes about six years, my dealer who has 30+ years experience in ancients (Greek and Roman) told me that silver...
I'm flattered...
Maybe a chemist on this site could chime in here, but I'm pretty sure that elemental (metallic) gold cannot possibly react with silver, or any...
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Once a person represents himself/herself as a dealer, it becomes their responsibility to value the goods or commodities that they sell, and price...
Wow! That COL NEM is far superior to the example that was sold last Fall in the NAC auction. The detail on the reverse is the best I've ever...
So, when do we see these coins? And the auctions to which you're referring -- were they posted on Sixbid?
This is a perfectly reasonable and natural question to ask on this particular forum. Congratulations to John Anthony (and apparently TIF) for...
I tend to agree with your observation. Looking through the unsolds, they're almost uniformly excellent coins, but the opening bids just seem...
I thought about this tournament for a few days before I decided to enter, and ultimately decided to do so because I sensed there would be more...
The thing that amazes me is the level of effort that must have gone into reproducing the dots around the obverse's border, all of which were...
Just FYI, for those of you who haven't viewed the Claudius in hand, I can report that there are no scratches visible to the naked eye, nor any...
I'm puzzled about one thing: why wouldn't an enterprising, skillful lepidopterist simply capture a breeding pair and churn out copies of these...
Let me be the first to say that that's an absolutely first-rate portrait of Titus on that denarius. It stands out even among the generally...
It's rumored that the first chariot race commenced 30 seconds after the second chariot was finished being built. Yes, we're all Y-chromosome...
Here's a good place to calculate inflation's effects on prices:...
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