Thank you all for your suggestions and comments. I've known this dealer going back to 1980, when he was still selling coins from his car, before...
Hi Barry When you evaluate a coin for authenticity, what analytical tools do you use, beside determining weight? Do evaluate the metal content,...
I am considering posting a thread about a local coin dealer, who has been operating his shop since the early 80s. I haven't asked him yet, and he...
Thank you for sharing the contents of this box, Barry. I've never seen what a shipment of high-power ancients to NGC even looks like. For me, it...
I was thinking that was the purpose of the hole, can't think of any other use, but a 10 ounces that is a bit heavy, unless it was only used for...
Interesting piece. I wonder what the purpose of the hole is, running through the length of the scarab, or tortoise or turtle? Apparently, the...
That's a very nice coin, one that I have seen before and is on my want list. The reverse, in particular, is really nice. Also, that Macedonian...
Thank you for the information - nice coin as well!
Thank you for the link. The Tabula Rogeriana, created by Arab geographer Muhammad al-Idrisi, is a remarkable map for the period (1154). Yes,...
Nice write-up and group! Trachy coinage for me is uncharted waters, something along the lines of ancient maps with unknown areas noted as "There...
Nice coins, Andres2. I especially like the obverse of Persephone, on the first Syracusan coin. The bull on the second Syracusan coin's...
Thank you, Donna. I will try to focus more on the first century AD empresses, once I get over my owl kick. Also, my apologies for the garbled...
Although her coins usually bring very healthy prices at auction, Byzantine Empress regnant Irene is probably not very familiar among many ancient...
Nice coins, Donna, and the other examples posted here are also very nice. I have only two coins of the first century AD empresses that have been...
Thank you all for your wonderful coins and comments. On a somewhat different track, I have just started reading Graves' The White Goddess. a...
It goes without saying that much of Roman mythology was borrowed from the Greeks, and the retelling of the story of Proserpina (Persephone) is no...
Yes, he did oversee some major public works, including the construction of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.
Nice thread! The history of Justinian I's reign is an interesting and complex one. Robert Graves, in his novel Count Belisarius, portrays...
It's possible, in Photoshop, to manipulate color and lighting, including surface shadows and highlights. I think that is what was done by the...
While much more of a medieval coin, AH 596 (1199-1200 CE), this Turkoman figural AE dirham, Artuqids of of Mardin, graphically shows the result of...
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