That one is in far better shape than your specimen. Your coin would be worth a fraction of that.
Yeah, there really isn't any equivalent of the Red Book or anything like that for ancients. The closest thing is the Roman Coins and Their Values...
Not Japanese. In the slight chance it helps, it says that it's dated "year 15" assuming that it's read from right to left and that the "year"...
Keep in mind that many of us don't collect for the sake of investment.
This. If you want something that's really unusual to modern eyes, try getting youself some Byzantine trachys. I always find it amusing to get...
The Roman coin depicts Constantine the Great. The obverse has his rosette diademed bust right, draped and cuirassed, with "CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG"...
Post a new thread on it in this subforum.
Just be careful about sounding like an expert in a field you don't specialize in, as it's really hard for someone who isn't to tell if you are...
I'm going to have to stop you there. Someone's Ebay rating is not a good indication if they're selling legitimate coins. Those who know enough...
While I can't tell you if these are good prices, since I collect the low end stuff, you don't need to just stick with slabbed coins to be sure of...
There's only so specific I can get on a coin in this rough condition. The reverse depicts two soldiers around 1 standard, with "GLORIA EXERCITVS"...
First of all, the first letter is actually gamma. Most mints used Greek letters to number the officinae. During the fourth century, portraits...
If this site is right, it's from sometime between 357 and 261 AD, and it depicts either Constantius II or Julian II. I can't really read the...
If they were all similar in size to the ones here, they were probably just some common 4th century or perhaps late 3rd century bronzes, so they...
I just did. Let's see what happens.
That's exactly what I was wondering.
So what exactly are you looking for out of this? History? Artistic merit? A wide variety of coins from a wide variety of places and times? Or...
One thing you need to keep in mind is that each die was hand carved. Because of this, in general, catelogs differentiate coins only by what appear...
Just so it's clear for everyone, these identical depictions went far beyond just coins at the time:
It's 五十 ニ, which is 25 when read right to left.
Separate names with a comma.
