I believe the appeal was being able to produce a large number of coins exactlt the same weight without weighing flans. Wire is pulled to be a...
Photo from the link provided by Bradley Trotter. Collecting these means deciding what you must have on flan and what you are willing to lose....
It is hard to imagine a Constans II bronze that would not be a candidate to upgrade. I selected this one for the obverse legend. EN ToVTO NIKA...
Valerian, Gallienus and Valerian II AE25 Nicomedia, Bithynia / agonistic urns - third Neocorate [ATTACH] Next: another provincial certainly...
Of my half dozen or so specialties is one shared by rather few of you: technical coins. These are coins that illustrate some point about the...
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac73xxi.html http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/officina.html My pages above cover XXI and...
We have to realize that there is no standardization in ancient coin prices. I buy very few coins from VCoins because most of the dealers there...
I was always fond of the grammar lesson on the posthumous Pius. The obverse is in the nominative while the reverse is dative. I bought mine at...
Do I see CS in orange or is that an accident?
I believe this is just a language thing. In English, we call it sodium but a number of modern languages adopted the Latin natrium. In either...
I believe this is Rome mint and harshly cleaned. Photos are easier/better if the coin is not in a plastic flip/holder.
There always is a special appeal to lefties when most of that ruler's coins face right. Sol, Iuventus, Aequitas, Juno [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
The header ask for help from 'Latin Readers'. Perhaps we should mention that these are not in Latin. Modern Italian names for Roman emperors...
Seven from Alexandria - like maridvnvm, I went through a phase when I bought all of these I saw but soon learned that they are the most common of...
My best provenance trace came as an accident when a friend sent me a scan of a page from Dattari/Savio for another coin and I discovered one of...
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Specialists in Republican coins show interest in the long series of types with Roman head and some form of horse reverse. Those of us who only...
gsimonel covered this well but I would add that beginners are twice cheated by the sellers who lead them to think that a coin 1800 years old needs...
Mine is also the smaller size but with the jellyfish between the legs. Your larger coin shows the internal structure of the shield nicely. [ATTACH]
How do you separate a coin from the Italo Vecchi collection from the many coins he sold as a dealer? Did it come with a special style ticket? It...
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