To me it looks as if it's some sort of Greek bronze with a portrait obverse and a winged thunderbolt reverse, like this one: [ATTACH] Here's a...
You read my mind...
What I mean is that when my dealer bids for me, or another customer, or his own inventory, he will usually have a fixed budget with limits and...
Yes, this surely is more of a concern -- I wouldn't want my dealer bidding against me for his own collection (although it's acceptable if he's...
I hadn't thought of this point that both you and Dougsmit bring up, but I doubt this thought would ever cross my mind when purchasing ancient...
I'm a little confused here. I think you got the "good" and "bad" adjectives reversed in Gresham's Law. Gresham's law is that "bad money drives...
Thanks. It worked this time. What did you change?
I'm wondering why I get ACCESS DENIED when I click on the link and the first page appears...?
Thanks for posting this link. Very informative and interesting.
About two years after I started my Twelve Caesars collection, I had completed both the AR and AV set. My goal at that time had been to collect...
Right now I'm after an imperial portrait (1) small bronze (as or dupondius), (2) sestertius, (3) denarius, and (4) aureus for each of the 12...
Thanks for your posting. I had been hoping to get the sestertius version of this coin (returning to Rome) but for the reasons I mentioned above,...
Even the best dealers make mistakes (cf: my recent Hadrian aureus forgery initially sold by NAC, but later detected by them) and I'd like to think...
Despite my recent setback (the Hadrian Hispania aureus that was a forgery), I continue to pursue Hadrian’s travel series coins. The recent Gorny...
A couple of the early October auctions brought a few coins my way that I'll be showing over the next few days. Here is the first of them. I’ve...
I love Hadrian's travel series. This coin in particular benefits from the river patina in which the deposits bring out the features without the...
Typos DO occur...
I'd be shocked if any of the more experienced collectors on this site base the price they're willing to pay for a coin on their own or others'...
OK... while I usually find off-topic pictures on this site just, well, off-topic (to be diplomatic), this one is plain hilarious. The looks on...
Directly from a bronze sculpture in Florence, taken just a few weeks ago... [ATTACH]
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