Oh, my favorite mintmark of all (I collect Roman "captives coinage"). The two captives back-to-back for Lugdunum (Lyons), c. 320 CE: [ATTACH]...
Wow, all it took was a Constantine thread to bring this place back to life! Not exactly what you may have meant, though it was struck under...
Better might be family members, or "non-emperors," since a range of different persons can appear on the coins. (And the wives were actually on...
That's a very respectable elephant denarius! If you feel dissatisfied, I'd be very happy to trade it for my own!!! [ATTACH] Here are five of the...
Aegina Land Tortoise AR Stater (Testudo Graeca Ibera) [MEDIA] Greek (Classical). Islands off Attica (Saronic Gulf), Aegina AR Stater (11.97,...
Wow, picking just one favorite RIC is harder than I realized! This may not be my one most favoritest (I probably hold that for my sentimental...
I think 10 months isn't very long ago. I have coins I bought 30 years ago that I'm still sharing for the first time. And, I guess, that it's a...
Why would they have paid anything different from that price? It would seem they're the buyer. Are you saying you think someone else may have...
Leu was right, that really is a lovely example! I pay attention to these ones at auction, since they seem like the best value for a silver RIC...
Those are good ones! This one, though: You also want to remember his "/ed/" pages, which are the "educational" ones, not the "for sale" ones:...
Here's the best of my Julian II Apis bull types. [ATTACH] Julian II AE1 “Double Maiorina” (29mm, 8.2g), struck in Nicomedia, 361-3 AD. Obverse:...
Oh that's interesting. I remembering reading a message by Phil Davis that he'd turned his collecting interests to these. Good to see the site,...
I agree, though over time I've become more skeptical of the high-volume budget auctions on biddr. I've bought tons of Greek AR fractionals there,...
I believe this for sure. Not just seeing obvious fakes but all the deceptive fakes (and tooled coins). Plus the less-deceptive fakes slightly...
Lest we go dark,"96 hour rule" (!) ... How about a Gorgoneion from ... is it Olbia or Parion now? [ATTACH] Greek (Archaic). Mysia, Parion...
@lordmarcovan & @Cherd -- here's an example of what I meant when I said I've seen lower end Aureii (Flavian, Antonine, even Tiberius) near $1000 +...
Solidi are the easy ones. If you're willing to spend $1,000 USD you can get an attractive Solidus in virtually mint state from the late Roman...
Yeah, that's what I meant about the water / being plausible (under water in the mud). I'm not sure why I've only even seen it with...
I think I would call that "RIC 852a Var" [edit -- you're right, the drapery makes it a "var"! cool] based on what I see from the ANS's (American...
Yeah, that's my first thought. I don't remember ever seeing freshly excavated coins looking like that. Maybe they had been quickly washed in some...
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