While I'm not sure that I understand the OP's intended question/topic for this thread, I have a number of personal and general insights and...
If by this you mean that you think people aren't reading your posts, that's not true in my case. I read all your posts, despite the fact that...
Again, I'll offer a different perspective on Doug's thread. Although I like quizzes, when I looked at this thread I had NO CLUE where to start...
My perspective on the artistic quality of a coin's portrait is generally independent of whether the portrait supposedly resembles the actual...
This is a fairly perceptive observation about grading, which can't be fully appreciated by most of us (including me) who didn't collect ancients...
[ATTACH] A++ for originality, graphics, and hilarious but subtle (satirical) humor!
Yes, I remembered that about a minute after I clicked "Post Reply."
I thought the British phrase was "knickers in a wad"... You might find it amusing to review the many threads on this site pertaining to slabbed...
Thanks for all the kind compliments. One of the more artistic features of earlier Roman coins is indeed the higher quality of the lettering...
Your observation about the coin's luster is accurate -- it's much better than shown in the above picture. But the toning isn't quite as...
Hadrian, known as one of the five good emperors, was born on January 24, 76 AD to a Hispano-Roman family. His predecessor as emperor was Trajan,...
It would be interesting to see how other Cointalk members feel about the relative artistic style (portrait) of these three Julius Caesar denarii...
I'm in agreement with Volodya here. Lifetime issuance, as well as artistry, are two factors (among many) in whether an ancient coin appeals to...
Interestingly, the obverse of my Caligula denarius shows two Ts that both almost look like a flying bird (the Ts at 10 o'clock and 8 o'clock on...
Only won one of the three coins on which I bid -- just today lost on the Sulla aureus from the Adams collection, which not surprisingly went for...
Went outside my 12 Caesars focus to bid on, and win, an aureus that was very appealing at this auction -- wish I had noticed it earlier at NAC...
Seriously, this coin was a huge bargain at $800K plus buyer's fee. The Gasvoda coin, which has a noticeable obverse double-strike (see below),...
Isn't that a bit like saying "I don't know what this bridge is -- I just found it spanning a river in Brooklyn."?
Yes, $28K in 2007. Today that coin might bring $60K+. Actually, I just remembered that this coin was resold by Heritage in 2014 for $105,000. I...
By way of illustration, here is a Titus Colosseum sestertius sold by NAC in 2008 for about $28,000 (including buyer's fee) that they described as...
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