You should believe Barry. With enough experience and a good eye, you can (rarely) find a good coin at a good price from eastern Europe on eBay....
Crack it out and you can then take a better photo. It looks to be a very nice coin, but it is hard to see a coin when the slab screams a grade and...
Here are places to buy that have, over the years, maintained a good reputation. http://augustuscoins.com/ed/dealers.html There are too many...
I often buy coins for their historical connection. My wife prefers I buy high-grade good-looking coins. (She has better taste than I do.) She is...
If lack of wear is your only criterion, that coin is exceptional. Lack of wear can bring exceptional prices. If one coin is "slightly" better than...
[ATTACH] You might expect London-mint coins to be inferior, given the remote location of London, and some of its coins are pretty crude. However,...
"OY" or "OV" is common in the Greek east for our "V". It also begins the names of Volusian and Valerian: [ATTACH] Valerian at Anazarbus in...
The quadrans denomination is thought to have been discontinued about the time of Marcus Aurelius, well before Septimius Severus. Here is a site on...
Yes. There was a flurry of "DN" titles on coin obverses from 317 when the three Caesars (Licinius II, Crispus, and Constantine II) were promoted....
Late Roman AE coins of the mid fourth century and later commonly have obverse legend which begins with the title "DN" for "Dominus Noster" ("Our...
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I think most sestertii turn dark like those. Some have a lovely green patina and that deserves a premium, because, as you can see from those and...
Byzantine anonymous folles were issued from 970 to c. 1118. There have been many threads about them and this is one web site about them:...
I am a book lover and somehow don't have that one, even though I wrote web pages on Byzantine copper: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/ A little...
We on CT do know know enough about the "collection" to know if it is a serious collection assembled with significant expertise and expense, or...
This coin of Aurelian, 270-275, has a golden tone: [ATTACH] The coin looks just like its photo on my screen.
Nevertheless, Crispus didn't last long. [ATTACH] Crispus, 317-326. PRINCIPIA IVVENTVTIS AQT 21-20 mm. 3.33 grams RIC Aquileia 9 (but emperor has...
I like tetrarchal folles: [ATTACH] 30-27 mm. 8.75 grams. Galerius as Caesar at Rome, c.302-3 MAXIMIAVS NOB CAES SACRA MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN...
Sear 844 of Heraclius from Seleucia can look like this: [ATTACH] 31 mm. 10.51 grams. Year 7. The type is usually very poorly struck.
[ATTACH] Here is mine. 20 mm. 3.22 grams. RIC 81 "R, third issue" July - Dec. 240. $30 on eBay in 2001.
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