Edit: It's this episode: 9.6 "America's Titanic" August 25, 2021 N/A Josh joins a salvage team off the North Carolina coast to investigate the...
It's an interesting thread. I was recently watching an Expedition Unknown repeat where Josh Gates visited NGC HQ's conservation room of such...
There's at least 51 varieties (more if one considers the sub-types) of the Class A2 follis. I didn't start heavily collecting them until...
I would have also guessed Hadrian, but I'm pretty sure that I see ..IANVS in the obverse legend. The blue patinas are the best patinas!
I strongly prefer my coins in a raw state. While I wouldn't consider myself a super expert, I have been collecting for 30 years. I'm relatively...
I'd like to thank Gallienus for the generous participation prize. It was a fun challenge to choose the best piece I could for the amount. I chose...
Yes, truly. That's nuts, on so many levels. I now have an intense desire to buy a Syrian coin/banknote.
[MEDIA] He discusses the slab shenanigans at 10:40.
Yes, I'm in the camp of ancient collectors who despise slabs. From what I can gather, (Aaron Berk discusses it a lot), the slabs are mostly meant...
Here's what the overtype should look like...
The reveal: Pickin and Grinin is right on the money. I would have graded it VF+. It probably could pass for XF by wear. If one wanted to go...
Well, I'm glad that I posted this GTG, or else I might not have realized until a later point what was going on with the coin. Yes, looking at the...
Good point. With Byzantine AE's, mint state is a 10/10 rarity. They often didn't look pristine, even on day one. Even though I can overlook...
I won't do this very often. I just happened to buy a fun, confuse-a-cat coin to offer up as a GTG, fun edition. It might make the slabbers go...
That would be wonderful if I could set up something like that and improve upon my miserable coin photography. I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 20...
On my excel spreadsheet I graded the original coin (the top picture) aVF by wear, corroded. A 1990's fixed price list probably would have listed...
Any other guesses before I reveal what I would have graded it? I bought the coin as an oddity and learning experience.
I forgot to add, with ancient grading one can have half-grades, like Fine plus (or about VF - both of which are the same thing).
It's somewhat obscured by the heavy patina, but there is wear around the ear/laurel crown of the obverse. The second pic was more of a patina...
This is more for fun, as the coin isn't slabbed. About 75% of ancients collectors have this attitude towards slabbing: (the media embed didn't...
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