you guys must be well funded because getting all the emperors (not even counting women and children) is like unthinkable for me. Some these guys...
I heard of that same thing Bing, but I don't think it was common. For the most part there were banker equivalents, whether a wealthy elite or...
I have access, for example, to EDM (electric discharge machine) that are manually operated (as opposed to run on pre-programmed plots) by...
Nero's coins were actually good, weight and precious metal content wise, compared to old roman. I wonder if people really hated him so much to...
What Doug had said made more sense. Most coins in pristine condition probably came out of modern hoard finds. Gold is soft and more susceptible to...
scarabs weren't coins! :) yours are old though, even for scarabs. older than that would probably be crime of certain degrees just by having them....
630bc that's like older than coinage itself
the valens isn't fake, it's a fantasy. nude roma :)
wasn't digamma also written as "F" at some point? Pheonician and Mesopotamian used the letter U, but that might had more to do with Y. As for Q,...
Gonnos, Gortyna, Gela, Gytheion:joyful: Just realized, greek alphabet doesn't have F, Q, W, U!
problem with the baetyl explaination is that the objects you guys had shown really didn't look like baetyl. the neck part was quite obvious on...
There was a forvm thread about those, with the perfect looking athena portrait and unfortunately there are numerous high quality forgeries of...
double strike?
a lot of times I like a coin for just the portrait, or reverse graphic, and sometimes even for the fonts. Kinda want one of those arabia coins...
My thought exactly, couldn't have put it better. First coin looked like the creation of an engineer, second from an artist.
the email should contain a mailing label. print it, stick it onto a padded envelop and mail the coin with that. That label is the stamp, Ebay...
woah that was quick, and here i was digging RSC for nothing! thanks TIF
Couldn't get this due to recent wife fury, that moneyer's mark I honestly had not noticed before. Was that a bird or insect? Any idea when this...
That's Marcus Sergius, grandpa of the moneyer. He was famous for being the first documented case of using a metal prosthetic hand, which allowed...
well temple of janus had doorS. two IIRC. :)
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