Yes, I have seen this error before. There is a very rare imitation owl with the obverse transposed, so Athena is facing left rather than right....
I think the issue fundamentally is what you think the coin is worth to you. Much of the high bidding, in my opinion, is driven by bidders who...
Nice solidus, Donna, an excellent type coin. Although the provenance can be traced to Kress, as long as there is no documentation of this...
Thanks The surfaces do look blended. I'm still studying this hacksiber and probably will for some time. Perhaps I can find a specialist in this...
You could be right. Maybe my senile old brain is up to its usual tricks....
Here's the highlighted character, or what may be a character, along with two others. What do you think? Thanks [ATTACH]
Here's an interesting item that arrived today, which I think qualifies as a bonified artifact. This a a piece of hack silver, from the Levant...
My recent experience with shipments from Israel has been around three weeks for delivery, sometimes up to four or five (especially during the...
Oops! Too late. Carry on.
I've been buying some coins recently from an Israeli seller, s.c.numismaticandartuser who has some pretty interesting items. He is willing...
Here's my crude, encrusted AE as of Faustina Sr., Aeternitas reverse, with Juno on the reverse, extending her right hand and holding a scepter in...
Obviously "artifact" has been expanded here to include rocks, minerals, fossils, meteorites, etc., anything that is very, very, old. I think this...
This Bactrian tetradrachm of Eukratides, 171-135 BC, has the best depiction of the twins of the ancients that I own. [ATTACH]
Keeping it all in the family, here's a tetradrachm from Antioch, depicting Vespasian and his son, Titus, 69-70 AD, year 2. 13.4 grams [ATTACH]
Beautiful obverse. That is one of the youngest portrayals of Zeus that I have ever seen, not the heavily bearded patriarchal image that one...
Thanks I found an approximate match for your trilobite, online: https://fossilsforsaleuk.co.uk/products/hollardops-sp-4-9-cm-morocco-devonian
An impressive trilobite! Is it from Morocco? Also, do you have information on the giant ammonite? Thanks
Donna, your fossil fish is from the legendary Green River Formation, Wyoming, Eocene Period, around 50 million years old. This location has, for...
I'd leave the coin alone now. Let it tone down over time. This takes patience, but the results should be beneficial.
Ah yes, the connections that we make from one thing to another, a uniquely human process, and a necessary one when viewing the development of...
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