Almost 15g! Must be quite impressive in hand. o_O
Hi, Valiant, I am from Buenos Aires, Argentina. ;)
For me, being spanish my native tongue and a "romance tongue" (derived from latin, that is) I found quite easy to pronounce latin or greek....
Awesome! Where is your hometown?
Yeah, and numismatically you can differentiate ages in different parts too. For example, Charlemagne and his monetary reform, or the introduction...
Join the Dark Side, you will. That is a beatiful example of a coin that emulates one from the Sassanian Empire (226-651AD). This may still "look...
My first thought was: "easy, nabatean...." but that reverse I have never seen on them before. So I would be inclined to think of a modern fantasy....
It is quite an interesting coin, congrats! I always liked it because of the goose looking backwards. Carradice and Price mention in their book...
How badly we needed that explanations...:blackeye:
I know a guy who kept buying fake stuff as original (due to ignorance mainly) for years...-in fact, once I met the guy who sold him fakes: coins,...
I was told it wasn´t doing well, so they had to shut it down. :/
I read an ancient source (cant remember who was it right now) that said they use to carry them on their mouths in order not to loose them.
Lovelly Lucilla! and for just 9 bucks?? The whole world must have been asleep to let this happen! Good for you, though I must say...Lucilla...
Confirmed Justinian I: http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?similar=241394
I have a friend who specializes in fifth century, we always joke about his "haberdashery", because they all look like little buttons to us. He has...
With these coins, no matter how good an obverse looks, you don´t get the emperor by just looking at it. Not to mention that good obverses like...
Hey, Fitz...it isn´t a VF coin for sure, but you didn´t buy it for that. I´m guessing your students will love it! How many times do they get to...
Nice Crispus! A friend of mine wrote an article (in spanish, english abstract only) reporting a Crispus with a reverse usually atributed to...
You chose a quite expensive set for that kind of budget! Although on the other side, you don´t have to complete it NOW. You have time, so you...
I mechanically clean the coin with a syringe needle tip and using a magnifier glass to produce minimum intervention. After soaking several weeks...
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