I recently bought the latest issue of Cohen in eight volumes for about $100 a reprint from the original in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford!
These days Cohen's catalog is used everywhere in France as if nothing better exists (But not in French!!). I do not think the ticket is very old...
One coin (right) was originally found in the south of England around 1865 and the other one I bought, as they are die-identical; we can expect all...
The granny who was responsible for getting her grandsons on the throne,, Julia Maesa...[ATTACH]
Frank is probably suffering from lack of reasonable/good quality coins. You just have to browse Ebay, to see that trash is offered at ridiculous...
Not really recent, but a very successful clean! Diva Faustina in a carpentum. Large (wooden) images of the deified emperors and empresses were...
With mechanical cleaning it is very useful to have magnification with good light. Then you can work on the square millimeter!
I have got both coins, but just a photo of one...Lepidus (needs a clean, I suppose)[ATTACH]
I think it is Marcus and also a provincial. The letters SC are nowhere to be seen and they usually last long. There is a small series which is...
From Lydia, time of King Croesos who is alledgedly the first to issue coins
"Frans, your Antoninous’ sestertii collection is very impressive. Thanks to you for all of us, and I have now samples ;) of RIC 523c, 581, and...
I once dropped a republican denarius on my wooden floor and in attempt to move my chair backwards to see where it had gone, one of the wheels of...
One of the first coins I bought from The Oxford Coin Shop, back in the seventies, also had a non colored 'river patina' It still is a nice coin...
I store my coins in fifteen[ATTACH] ten-drawer Beba boxes chronologically. Each coin has a card with catalog number and my own registration number...
Good collectible coins, but indeed stripped of their corrosion and patina; hence the pitting. Frans
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The three most common types of quadrantes in Gaul during Augustus' reign
[ATTACH] Cleaned the dirty sestertius a while ago and discovered one of the best Domna potraits[ATTACH]
I am happy with this big lot at $15 per coin![ATTACH]
Pius' most famous pig: Discussed here a year ago: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-white-sow-of-lavinium.347048/ RIC 733[ATTACH]
countermarked halved nemausus coin.[ATTACH]
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