[ATTACH] Here is my Piso Frugi, which is one of my favorite RR coins. I’m at 32 RR denarii now. It’s a slow moving project, just like all my...
Until the battle of Somme, which lasted around 100 days, no battle had cost more life than Cannae. The blood must have been flowing everywhere. It...
I personally think that the amount of fakes is less of a problem than the potential number of coins being robbed from archeaological sites and...
Congratulations! This was my first Roman coin. I thought this was my first sestertius: [ATTACH] With time I understood that this was a...
Lots of nice silverd samples here. I see that my coin is far from unique. Does anyone have a Tetricus in this condition?...
That one is spectacular, Victor. Wow. In your collection?
I recently aquired a Victorinus antoninanus that turned out to be a very positive surprise. The auction photo was somewhat overexposed, so I was...
My favorite emperor tends to vary with where my collection focus is. Right now I’m into the 4th and 5th century, and the favorite candidates are...
A while ago, I bought this lot of Indian coins: [ATTACH] I don’t have a specific interest in Indian coins, but I thought it was a good price for...
Thanks John I imagined it might be rarer, as I found plenty of samples without ES but none with it. But I guess we always perceive our coins as...
And thank you to John and Bruce too. Always good to learn something new about an old coin.
This helps a lot, @Parthicus. Thank you! I’m actually quite sure that my original identification is 100% wrong. I have Fuld somewhere in the...
Hello everyone Yesterday I tried to ID some civil war tokens that I’ve got. I ran into some challenges with this one: [ATTACH] This looks like...
Yes, it’s enough for a while now :) Like your coin shows; good buys can still be had. The only coin I went over my limit with was the Anastasius....
That’s a real beauty. Congratulations!
What a beauty!
They are all competing for the 2021 top ten list:) I’ll have to relax the buying a little now, but it’s been fun.
But one of them is an aureus....
Very nice, congratulations! All of them look like good metal, that’s a huge plus. The engraving on the mantle of Probus looks pretty spectacular.
John, I’ve been bitten by the gold bug and it’s your fault! ;) I have come to a point where I need to pay 400$+ for the silver coins that I...
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