That's the new line which replaces the venerable "L@@K MOST GOLD FOUND!! L@@K" headers on bulk lots of uncleaned 4th century Roman coins.
Not sure it will help you, but over the years I have found that the working definition of "rare" = "you don't have one". The practical definition...
Yes, I believe I recall that David Sear makes a similar comment under this type in Greek Coins and Their Values. Many types became the prototypes...
Although it is correct that counterfeiting (mainly in the form of gold or silver foil-wrapped fourrèes) began about 2:00 in the afternoon of the...
Contemporaneous with the scyphate, faux Byzantine trachea (of which your coin appears to be a fragment) Bela III also struck another large-module,...
There are theories (there are many theories, but some of the most plausible) explaining the existence of so-called "Limes Denarii" (I'll explain...
Mercenaries - like Danubian Celtic warriors in the Hellenistic period - at the end of the campaigns for which they were hired took their pay from...
Relatively high value coins like tetradrachms weren't necessarily struck every year. Emissions like this were more typically struck specifically...
The legend on the reverse is a formulaic date and the crucial part at the end is clear - Δ - the whole thing translates to approximately "Four...
Sorry for any confusion I may have inadvertently raised. The combination of salt and vinegar was mentioned in someone's post further upthread, and...
Not too sure what "no foam" means in this context, but you are aware, aren't you, that toothpaste is like commercial metal polish ("Brasso",...
In one or another of your original photos, it appeared to my eye that there were "bumps" around the circumference of the reverse indicating a...
This would be more typical of what you'd see by way of "legend" on the reverse of the overwhelming majority of examples of this type of piece:...
Someone suggested previously that it might be an Alexandrian tetradrachm of one of the tetrarchs or other later-date issuers of Provincials in the...
It appears - though it's not possible to be 100% sure from a photo - that this could well have a serious active case of bronze disease working...
Maximian's 2nd go-round as Augustus on a follis-type more usually associated with Maxentius (his son):[IMG]...
The original issue of the article is now almost 20 years old, although it seems to have been extensively updated fairly recently - in China,...
It's really hard to make out the engraver's intent on the obverse of your Abdera piece, perhaps, like this one, it is only the forepart of the...
It's unfortunate that it appears to be too thick to put in a Riker mount - those are nice, inexpensive display cases - perhaps there are deeper...
Eats shoots and leaves. Eats, shoots and leaves. Eats shoots, and leaves. Eats, shoots, and leaves. There is a galaxy of nuance which can be...
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