I think it came to around £8 including postage, so a short wait isn't the end of the world.
Thanks to this thread and your post I now have a copy of the Browning book winging it's way to me. Unfortunately I didn't realise I was buying...
What an excellent resource. It's a shame I don't collect the coinage really haha. It's an enjoyable thing to browse regardless.
Still lacking a Juno and the Paycock coin, but it has to happen at some point. Nice coins RC.
Forget ancient pronunciation, how am I supposed to say antoninianus, a word created by numismatists that sounds more like a car crash happening...
Definitely a modius.
@maridvnvm I meant that AG is rarer than AVG specifically with this type with the -/-//PLON. You are quite right with other types, AG is much...
That is the question. [ATTACH] 9.05.013 (cuirassed) or 9.05.015 (trabea) - RIC VII 271 CONSTANTINVS AG - Laureate and cuirassed or trabeate bust...
Somehow I've managed to go a year and a half collecting Roman coins without a single she wolf reverse type. What is this sacrilege?
I can see why it was on your list, it's impressive. Big one too. Nice.
What a great little group of coins, and a striking patina. With such a consistent colour I'm say you're on the mark regarding them being buried...
Agreed, looks like a base metal core.
As far as I'm concerned it's quite simple. All a seller needs to do is do the best they can to make the photograph match the coin, and if that...
As an eBay dweller, I've gotten quite good at guessing what a coin might possibly look like from frankly terrible photographs haha
I've just been reading about Julian in Gibbon, and now on a discussion of the Arian controversy which is so tedious and pointless that I am...
To be perfectly honest, I think most coins of Carausius and Allectus being offered online by retailers are grotesquely overpriced in most cases,...
Wow that's a great lifetime issue @Roman Collector , very nice!
I found this piece online by Andrew Burnett and published by the British Numismatic Society which offers some speculation regarding Allectus'...
@Severus Alexander That LON mintmark Maximianus is lovely, as are the rest. I've not seen a LON coin in the market since I started searching, but...
The toilet paper shortage thing is pretty funny here in the UK. We make a lot of the toilet paper we sell here so there's basically no chance of...
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