Well first of all, I doubt you're going to find many modern fourrées. Fourrées were a type of counterfeit that had a base metal core wrapped with...
First of all, the "Greek" coin with the horse is actually Indo-Scythian, though I can't tell you much more from the picture. I'm thinking that the...
Best I can tell, Doug Smith has it. It's not a particularly valuable coin, but definitely nice for a souvinir. You're probably the first person...
How about for Soviet era stuff? I'm starting to get an interest in some of that.
I work in Contents Pricing for an insurance company. Basically, my job is to figure out how much we pay out to people who lost whatever it is...
Before I went to Japan a couple of years ago, I always heard complaints about how much change you have to carry there. You see, the smallest bill...
That could easily be a lot of things. We'll really need a picture to determine what it is. If anything at all is visible on the more worn side,...
So how exactly did you land a job like this?
I'm generally not into medieval stuff, but holy crap!
It's a Roman provincial coin from Tyre, probably from the second century AD. This was a coin minted in Tyre for local use while the area was...
My Top Ten List of eBay Don'ts!! I found this post on "My Top Ten List of eBay Don'ts!!" interesting and have nominated it accordingly for...
I'd like to add a few things for those looking into buying ancients online: Don't buy anything "as is" or of unknown or unsure authenticity. A...
Wow. That sucks. I'm surprised it jumped to a price that high immediately. I expected something like $10 a month if that when I read the title...
I agree. Nothing about it looks right, and you seem to have described it having a casting seam, which you rarely see on authentic ancient struck...
Hey, it still looks pretty nice to me. I'd gladly have that in my collection.
Yeah, that's what I think of it. I do know of collectors who winced when I mentioned that I had anything that could be considered broken, and I...
That would be Annona, who was the Roman personification of the annual grain supply of Rome. The objects with her all represent things related to...
In my collection, I have a few coins that are damaged enough that many collectors wouldn't touch them with a 10 foot pole, but I love them anyway....
Since we're showing more than one now, let me present to you my next most valuable coin: Ptolemy II Philadelphos 285-246 BC Ptolemaic AE 40...
Assuming that you indeed see "SIVSPFAVG" there, it is indeed a coin of Theodosius I, whose VOT/XV/MVLT/XX reverses date to 379-383 AD according to...
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