My Classical owl was lonely, so I got her a friend! She is no more or less wise than her older counterpart, but does have a few hundred years more...
See this coin here:...
@Ken that coin really stood out, I too gave it some consideration. Nice pickup for sure.
I've had auction houses take up to a week to issue an invoice. I've also had auction PO's and other correspondence end up in my junk mail and go...
I'm in the midst of a bronze disease treatment of a coin I DO value very much. The patina may or may not be sacrificed in the process.. I've read...
Not much more to add here. Any dealer you have bought through will suffice as a reference.. With the amount of quality coins passing through the...
Fair enough, when I looked at the listing the description was ok. FYI I'm definitely not the dealer in question here, just a guy procrastinating...
@Ken Dorney if the coin is now listed as tooled, what grounds would you have for removing it from the site? The description is honest. Does...
This will count as my first serpent coin too, and as is often the case with rarities the type just wasn't on my radar until this example came...
Roma auctions have been good to me lately, and last week I was lucky enough to come away with this Roman Provincial gem. Asclepius, son of...
The greatest thing about this forum is the wealth of knowledge and experience that our more senior members are willing to share. If anyone had...
Regarding the Heliokles Tetradrachms.. #1 seems to lack any sign of flow lines, iridescence (despite its high grade), or encrustations of any...
I use cigar boxes with cavity foam inside. When viewing my coins I always prop them up on an angle, each one set up so the light will hit it...
https://www.acsearch.info/image.html?id=3764164 Here is a dachreiter type drachm that is at least close on the reverse side
The styling of the horse looks very much like eastern celts aka Danubian celts. Above the horse is an image of a wheel. My best guess about the...
I did speak with Alfred of Agora and he alluded to being not well at the time, and last week his email auto-responded as on vacation Aug 5-12th....
I can't help with the OP's seller but I'm in the same situation with Agora Auctions, it's been 2 weeks with no response. I guess we do need to...
As long as the Edge modifications weren't hiding something sinister.. I'd be all for it! In fact knowing some material was removed from edges my...
I would have posted the results from acsearch (which showed some much higher prices and higher quality examples) but we recently had a discussion...
To clarify my above post, I would be surprised to see this example fetch less than $1000 at a major, well advertised auction house. @dougsmit...
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