I have a few of those books. I have the Icard "dictionary" in paper back. The introductory text is in French, but is not necessary for the use...
I bid on four and got three. Not bad except that the one I most wanted got sniped away at the close of the sale with me leading until then. Had...
Indeed she does, and I just missed one by one advance over my bid. I couldn't get home in time to cover, and it makes me sick. I'm trying to...
I don't know about that, Ras. You know what you're thinking, but for what it's worth, Q. David Bowers, at Whitman, heads up a team that is...
Not sure the time rules for an imperial issue are the same for a fouree.
The letter in the left field is an H (RIC Rome 258), which Sutherland speculated stood for HPKOY(L)IO(S) - in Greek letters.
Constantine was Christian by affirmation long before his death. It was his baptism which was delayed, but that should not be equated with his...
Saving one's self a bit of work is a very different motivation from doing one's best for the preservation of the coin while trying to make it more...
Presumably this is a commemorative, or an issue of a namesake, inasmuch as the man who founded what became the Carolingian Empire was a figure of...
@BenSi, I have to disagree with our colleagues on the list a bit on the question you have posed. I seldom clean a coin these days, mainly because...
(continue) Fausta (I) The coins of Fausta are mostly not particularly rare, but assembling a complete set from all the mints in all the main...
I still have a few December additions that have not yet arrived, so my 2019 top ten will be a true year in review. I can now post the items I...
Thank you for showing your example, @savitale. It finally revealed to me what it is about my example that has left me a bit puzzled since I first...
Earlier this year after reading your report about getting an Attic "Owl" Tet, I decided it was time to get a better example myself. I will show...
Sorry, but no. The English word "carouse" was derived in the 16th century from the German expression "gar aus trinken" which was specifically a...
Earlier in this discussion I had quoted the caveat from Mattingly, which I will repeat here: This seems pretty congruent with where you finally...
If it was cleaned to bright yellow don't wait for it to tone to a nice rich chocolate brown, it shouldn't. That Claudian sestertius was struck on...
Unless the horn is brimming over with some kind of content (commonly fruits and veggies, but other things too) I have to question whether or not...
They differ in module size. The coin dies were designed for a module of 16x17mm and 2.45 grams or so. However, when they had to adjust for...
The mintmark on your coin has been oddly struck. The initial S is not continuous, but looks like an upper half and a lower curve jammed together,...
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