My thoughts, exactly! @Julius Germanicus's coin, in particular, has a few things going for it: mostly readable obverse legends, very distinctive...
I love this, but the photos would be much easier to look at if they were rotated the way they would be when you open up the book and look at it.
I am no photographer, but my girlfriend is, and I have read a bit about coin photography. If you take nothing else away from this thread, I hope...
I agree 100% with all of this. I don't think the cameo came through very well in the photos. I was actually thinking "not cameo," because it...
Style varies pretty widely on these. Here are over 300 of them you can look at. I don't see anything wrong with this coin, either.
Well. I'm glad I reminded you. :-)
This is an absolutely spectacular coin. I realize I forgot to post this on my previous reply. Here is the reverse of my transitional tet. This...
Ah, I see. It's not that you have no silver coins, just no silver coins of "last of their line" rulers? It's a little surprising you don't have...
Great coins, everybody. Unfortunately, I don't think I have anything that qualifies here. I distinctly remember you posting about buying a...
This was exactly my initial thought. But, since @Barry Murphy chimed in, I'm now convinced it's totally genuine. It's not entirely clear to me...
Great coin, great story, great everything! This is exactly the kind of coin I would absolutely love to own, and that you'd have to pry from my...
I see where everyone is coming from, but, to my eye, the OP coin looks like a "transitional pi style," as they call it at the link (specifically...
Scratches on the slab make this harder than it ought to be. PF67 for me.
I agree 1 million percent. I've got several subcollections I'm working on simultaneously, which allows me to wait for the coin without going so...
Ah, no problem. That wasn't intended as a jab or an insult. I just thought it was pretty well known amongst members who have been here for a few...
I'm pretty much in agreement with 35-40. Nice coin, but I might have either waited to save up a few more dollars and gone with an UNC type piece....
@GDJMSP : What book is that in the photo? I hope you were joking... this is @GDJMSP's pocket piece. He's posted about it before.
The magnitude of the difference between measured and actual mass suggests that your scale is not calibrated and is reading 0.5-ish grams too low.
I'm looking at the same coins I was looking at a few months ago, just buying a lot less of them.
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