I agree. Forum is a good one. Marc Breitsprecher is a great guy, and offers great/super-fast service. However, a lot of his coins are from...
Thank you, really kind of you! I'm just a regular guy who's always been interested in ancient history. There are many on numisforums who write...
Besides being pretty, coins can just tell you a lot about history. Let's take 3rd century Roman coins, for example. They tell a lot about a very...
Oh, if you're doing faces, Nero from the Lugdunum mint. My avatar is a large sestertius from said mint. It cost $425 (and has a tiny hole) in...
$300 would net some good starters. If you can put up with c. $25 shipping (fast FedEx from Germany), Savoca is a good one. They have many...
I'd also recommend quality over quantity. Find something you like and try to find an example that you'll not get tired of. I went through a...
Other suggestions: Coins of the emperors from 69-192. Generally affordable and there's a ton of variety, both imperial and provincial. The large...
If I had a larger budget I'd be quite happy with collecting Sestertii of the 12 Caesars as my main specialty. However, they're quite expensive in...
Welcome to the Ancients side! It's actually cheaper than collecting Americans, generally speaking. It's very difficult to find true uncleaneds...
Gosh, I hope you recover soon. That's scary. MANY ancient coins are very affordable (very easy to find $20-100 coins). Vcoins has an...
Are you asking me if it's a taboo or methods? I'm a notorious klutz at hands-on stuff. Assuming the former, tooling is a big no-no (although...
I guess 7 degrees isn't too bad then! Yikes, that's scary. The search function isn't that great at numisforums, but there's been various topics...
I bought the Ptolemy, trying to find a coin that I saw years ago. It was around this size, but massively thick, with a very beveled edge. This was...
Very nice. Welcome to the ancients side!
Unless it has bronze disease or something of the sort, patinas are our friends. [ATTACH] Aside from the unappealing artistic issues, this coin of...
I bought (when I was actively collecting old time radio), an original, 1941 copy (a radio station linechecked it) of Roosevelt's Day of Infamy...
It's rare that I get to go to the 'local' coin shop, 25 miles away, but the owner is fabulously friendly. It was a real pleasure to go there. I...
I guess it depends on one's definition of clad, but plated coins have been around since the earliest coins. Forgeries were made by adding a foil...
Noscript works, except that it's pretty annoying to have to program what to allow with each site.
Very cool examples. I'd say the Eisenhower/Washington ones are every bit as high relief as the Seleucid Tetradrachm.
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