Consecration coins for Carus are available with several obverse legends. This is not particularly rare but is one that I had been wanting. Post...
Today at 1:20 PM Fed Ex delivered my winnings from Sunday's G-N Pecunem sale. That is Germany to Virginia in less than 72 hours. The coins I...
I'm working on lighting techniques for coin images an produced the image below showing four versions of the same coin shot with the same camera...
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/bh.html I hesitate to post yet another Shahi jital but my page above mentioned that there were other...
The mail today produced two very different mid grade Republican denarii. I like Republicans that show something just a little different from most....
I realize most who see this have no interest in ancients and/or coin photography and/or Canon cameras but just in case: Any owner of better Canon...
I have said on several occasions that cameras take better pictures than phones. Before now, I've never had much of a phone so I was basing his on...
The other coin that arrived today is another in my series of the common two victories coins of Magnentius and Decentius. These were very out of...
My new favorite (of the two that arrived today anyway) is a type I have been seeking for quite a while. I would expect more people to find this...
Tomorrow will be a week since I went to that show and I still have a couple newp's not shown. They differ greatly. First is a standard 16.9g AR...
Many collectors want just a single coin of each emperor and, to many, it seems any coin will do. I am of the opinion that there are some reverses...
I did not have a cow/calf of Apollonia so I bid on one online. Then I went to a show and saw another which I bought being unsure of the result of...
Last week I posted my new Constantine II that was anything but common and cheap. Today I'll show three coins similar but different. Two of them...
The dealer who provided this tried to talk me out of it because it was so worn but the fact remains I would never pay the going rate for a nicer...
I took a bag full of duplicates that no one else had wanted to the show yesterday and found a dealer willing to allow me trade credit from his...
My first showing of new coins from yesterday's coin show is a pair of unspectacular antoniniani. I previously had not seen the types for sale but...
The mail delivered today my one and only win from the recently closed VAuction in which I paid too much but got the coin I wanted. Did anyone...
EBay has begun giving a small percentage of purchases back as a kickback in the form of a credit that must be used rather quickly after it is...
[IMG] My new coin today is not ancient but gets posted here because it would make more sense to someone who had read some of my earlier posts...
We try too hard to make things look possibly good when it it obvious that they are not. This week there was a coin on eBay that attracted my...
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