I agree that just calling an ancient coin "rare" is meaningless. Every ancient coin is unique. Unique seems pretty rare to me. It's much more...
The assumption with these coins is that they were minted in Athens, which is why NGC wrote that on the slab. However, they were highly prized for...
Congratulations on your first foray into ancients. I think you're starting off with a real winner.
I can see the ΦIΛ in the monogram of @Severus Alexander's coin. I noticed that the Handbook of Greek Coinage (HGC) changed the date to 274/3-211...
It looks like a helmeted Athena, but I agree it's different. Looks like maybe a Corinthian helmet (think: Syracuse) rather than the crested helmet...
@hotwheelsearl, it looks like you have a helmeted Athena countermark on the obverse. I recently posted a coin with this Countermark, and @seth77...
www.bookfinder.com can sometimes be helpful in locating copies of out-of-print books. Here are the Copies that they list as currently available.
Here's another little fellow from the Roma group lots: [ATTACH] Kings of Macedon AE15 unit Obv: Diademed young male head, right, within border of...
Here's an interesting little Greek bronze that I got in a lot from Roma: [ATTACH] Kings of Macedon Antigonos II Gonatas, 277-239 B.C. AE20 Obv:...
I have not noticed coins of Constantius I noticeably more expensive than those of the other tetrachs (at least in the US), although the reverse of...
I found this coin in a batch of uncleaned, mixed in with all the aVG LRBs. It's a bit scruffy, but I've always loved this portrait: [ATTACH]...
Thank you for pointing this out.
Edward Scissorhands?
Nothing from the Weiß collection to add. I just wanted to say how much I admire those two bright, shiny apples atop the campgate of the OP.
It's a shame these coins were ruined. But "a crime against humanity"? Um . . .
I wonder how many of the photos on those posters were taken by the person selling them.
I disagree about the dremel. Looks more like a chisel.
Here's another VCoins dealer whose coins all seem to have the same, light, sandy patina. Notice in particular the Gordian III antoninianus. I've...
You might try taking a rubbing of the letters.
Here's another coin that I received in the lot of coins from the William Stancomb Collection that I won in a recent Roma auction: [ATTACH] MOESIA,...
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