Oldhoopster said: "When I was new to ancients in the early 2000’s, I used to buy the uncleaned lots that were filled with LRBs. FWIW, The easiest...
The portrait doesn't look like anyone who was around during the time of activity of the Colonia at Pisidia, Antioch, and that is hardly the only...
For someone starting out, this seems like it would make a decent "armature or skeletal collection" which could form the nucleus of a new...
Your 'Trajan Decius' is Gallienus, joint reign with Valerian On second examination, you're probably right - it probably is Decius. I gotta stop...
It is 100% the job of any and every auctioneer to realize as high a hammer as possible (let me repeat and phrase it slightly differently: "as high...
Quarters, not being magnetic, would be affected very little, if at all, by the magnets in an MRI. Ferrrous metals, on the other hand - well,...
I'm an "ancients guy" and really not all that well-informed about the sorts of things that can go wrong inside modern minting apparatus which can...
MKman123 - you write in your initial post: "...My goal is to preserve them.[...] I notice many of you ancient collectors collect raw/prefer raw....
I don't know what happened to the comment I originally wrote, but the gist of it was that as late as the early 90's I was still getting 90% silver...
I'm not too sure what happened to the 1st instance of this I posted (I wasn't signed-in at the time - when I signed-in, it apparently disappeared)...
This is a "stock" question, but do you have some specific reason to doubt its authenticity? The seller's other items - are any of those...
Glen is correct here - and you will undoubtedly encounter other names and/or terminology that might now be - or in the past have been - considered...
What I think is interesting/important about the Æ1-4 system is that it was not developed with LRB's specifically in mind. It was created, as I...
Flans for silver coins were not treated to the same surfacing techniques which resulted in the so-called centration dimples on the Æ's. What you...
Well poopies! I had a long (and no doubt brilliant) comment in answer to the story of the fellow jailed for passing $2 bills, but when I was asked...
I'm not sure who it is, but it seems, from what appears to be some surviving silvering (mainly obverse) that it is a silvered antoninianus or...
Not at all sure where you get the idea that an age-eroded surface like that seen on this coin is the result of it being a modern cast - but no,...
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If this is a repeat post, I'm sorry. This appears to be a tourist souvenir or perhaps a museum gift shop item. It's a modern cast copy of an AR...
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