Since not everyone who might read this is an ancients specialist, an ancients "fan", or even an occasional aquisitor, I thought it might be...
Thanks, I have been called worse...
Yes, as a beginner the learning curve can resemble an unscalable cliff to those just encountering it. Don't let the complexity which can be...
This piece also exhibits the "silver wash" (not really a wash, but this is hardly the first misnomer in the terminology) silvering technique...
In my experience, the foil-wrapped fourrèes are very seldom seen this late. You will find presumably unofficial pieces from this reign and...
In the 4th century, the field marks, rather than being officina designations, are often "controls" like this extensively "coded" Valentinian I...
I'd simply call it "altered" and leave it at that. Unless I were trying to expand my black cabinet in that direction for some reason, the word...
There is a whole galaxy of terms which could be applied to copies of various kinds, but there are questions to try to answer before assigning a...
Thanks - I've been collecting for a long time and although top condition has never been my #1 consideration, I have a few relatively...
Since we are, after all, a coin group, I'll include a few photos of crusades-era and/or crusades adjacent coins: [IMG] Bohemond III of Antioch,...
It had a lot to do with the concept of primogeniture. By this tradition, only the eldest son could inherit the father's land. Younger brothers...
not a particularly "pretty" example, but it's another reverse type: [IMG] Marius, Billon Antoninianus Mint of Cologne, 268 AD. 20mm, 2.37g, 7h....
Possibly a broken, distorted or dislocated collar allowed the flan to be struck slightly off-center. You didn't include photos of the edges, but...
"Whatever works for you" is probably the most cogent answer to this question/set of questions. Although my ordering scheme varies from era to era...
Glen, why not crawl back under the porch with a metal detector? Who knows what-all you might find that has slipped through the cracks over the years?
Old paperback novels are another source of "cheap" high-sulfur paper - pretty much any old paper which yellows with age/sunlight will do. You...
Of course almost no one smokes any more - and smoke in the air acted as a strong toning accelerant in this scenario - but even with our relatively...
That's because until some time in the 70's (I believe, might have been early 80's), when it became an independent nation, it was a "colonial"...
Here are a few - nothing too special, but the first two illustrate how the style could vary within the same type. [IMG] Faustina Senior, †, 141...
After about 265 B.C. the flans for almost all large (and quite a few of the small) coins made in Egypt - both Ptolemaic and the later Roman...
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