Many of the coins shown here are not as much worn as they are corroded and I am much harder on corroded coins than on those with 'honest wear'....
When comparing purchasing power of money then and now, we have to remember that some things were cheap then and some things much more expensive....
A dealer friend of mine at a show in Baltimore a couple years ago had a box with a great number of similar grade late Romans which he was offering...
Septimius Severus denarius Rome mint /Genius PR [ATTACH] Clodius Albinus Augustus denarius Lugdunum mint /GEN LVG COS II [ATTACH]
While many still cling to the old ID of this as Livia, I believe this coin shows Livilla, wife of Drusus Caesar as Pietas (rather funny since she...
I'm sorry to hear that you skip over the part of ancient history that I prefer but, when I was your age, I was more into Archaic Greece and...
When shopping for a Widow's Mite remember the rule of almost all collectables. Nice ones are more expensive than junky ones. In this case, 90%...
This last one also suggests the seller either was not aware of the high bid or was honest in not arranging a $400 bid. To me, this is a...
I bought 2 lots for a total of 59 coins from the AK section of Triton XX and have posted the decent ones here repeatedly certainly including the...
MONET AVG reverse in case anyone cares
Learning is great but we must learn correctly. Three dots is a quadrans; four dots would be triens. The system worked on base 12. That means...
If I could have one wish for Coin Talk it would be that more people here subscribe to this theory of collecting. There are many reasons for...
While it is interesting that there are so few of these rare coins, the question I would like to see addressed is how many different types of...
I always wanted one of these, too, I will never have one. In fact there is a specific coin I would prefer and consider most beautiful because it...
In my younger and less well informed days I bought the coin below from a dealer I later discovered to be a crook who sold me more than one fake....
Are you saying that the proper ancient or modern use of the word is only applied to people who are actually Greek excluding wannabees?
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