Actually I don't have that many Flavian coins but i do have one that is an RIC II Plate coin It is RIC 1040 (Vespasian) on Plate 56 Domitian as...
I have two denarii of Domitian that I really like. They are not the highest grade coins in my collection but I still like them. The first one is...
Last January I attended the Triton XXII auction at the NYINC. I had settled on getting 4 coins and if I still had any money left 2 others. I got...
I tend to agree with Ancient Joe (again this is becoming habit forming) I do believe that some objects do belong to a public collection. However,...
I am not so sure. Pictures are nice but at the end of the day they are two dimensional images of a three dimensional object. I remember looking at...
I have to agree with Ancient Joe that a complete set of all the major varieties ancient Greek coins would be a massive undertaking and probably a...
I have actually wrestled with that question for some time, as I view my coins as both as my collection and as a teaching tool to help students of...
I have a number of "plate coins" But this one is a bit of a mystery. It is number 718 in the book " Coins of the Seleukid Empire From the...
I have always understood FDC to be a perfect coin, with no flaws, no wear and generally of superior style. Most of what are seen are either "mint...
I have just come back from the New York show and I have to say that I really enjoyed my time at this event. One can spend a full week just doing...
Okay I will be there. I have already met a couple of people from this group and I am hoping to meet more. I will be wearing a grey jacket grey...
I have a number of favorite coins, ones for whatever reason I like and I hope that this year I will add one or more of them into my collection....
I am wondering if anyone is attending the New York show which is only a couple of weeks away. I plan to be there weather permitting and I wonder...
Hi I am wondering if anyone is going to the NYIC Show
Actually I have three main interest areas Greek, Roman Republic and Imperial. I would consider each to be roughly equal, so in some sense this...
I really feel for your loss Severus Alexander. The Tarsos was one of the Alexander's I was looking at but .... sleep got the better of me.. It is...
Actually I had planned to bid on some of the coins. This auction had a really nice selection of early tetradrachms of Alexander III but I managed...
In ancient coins tooling is generally restricted to Roman sestertii as well as bronze coins of Pantikapaion as well as the Kingdom of the...
I tried collecting Canadian coins as a kid. I would on occasion find a interesting coin in pocket change. I also collected foreign coins and with...
I do like the coins. My favorite is the Bavarian gold minted during the Thirty Years War. I don't collect those coins but I do like them. I also...
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