In 308 AD Imperial production of folles for the senior Augusti (Diocletian and Maximan) was suspended, as was the coinage for Severus, hence also...
@furryfrog02 I'm not sure that what is ailing your OP coin is entirely corrosion. There is some of that, which cuts down into the original...
I have a brother who lives in upstate Florida now. We don't see him much. But been giving thought to retiring down there when the time comes....
Here are a couple more. The PONT MAX was the later addition, and cost much less than the SECVRITAS: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I guess not.
They do exist. I got this one from CNG a couple of years ago. [ATTACH] I was keen at the time to get at least one example of every type of FEL...
My mistake. You are correct at #89. I had overlooked the header for the second series which specifically mentions the chi-rho in the banner....
The coin you show in this post is RIC VIII #83 for Siscia. It has to be Constantine II since CTG was deceased by this time. What is the size and...
Thanks for the heads up. My pre-bid is in (fat lot of good that will do me). Roma sold this one in June for a hammer of 4000 GBP: [ATTACH]...
I would have thought this covered it. If a coin is unpublished even as an auction illustration, the burden of proof is on the person submitting...
Please tell us more. Is there any evidence that Constantine II did this during his father's lifetime? It would seem that Bruun was not aware of...
Couldn't resist a chance to show some similar reverses to that beauty TIF showed (others have shown as well): This Domna was attributed to Emesa...
I'm guessing here, but I suspect Customs isn't doing that. If it's what I ran into with buys from this same house, you are having an issue with...
Folks were recently discussing how nerve wracking it can be to wait for coins to clear customs. You never know when a coin is going to clear, nor...
@Severus Alexander thanks for fleshing out the details you brought up, especially the point about octobols versus paper weights. They help to...
Thanks for the heads up. The trays look good to me and I thought I would get examples of three different colors. But the checkout system did not...
What you are saying is that in a contest like this where (by your estimate) collectors of Greek coinage predominate, Roman collectors have little...
For NGC generally, perhaps, but something tells me that stat is not quite true for the ancients division.
@Sallent yeah I'm familiar with the dynamics of supply and demand. But in terms of market history, the hardest coin to get in a large and popular...
I must confess that I don't understand why the voting on best bargain is taking the shape it is (practically 2-1 for the hockey puck). Seriously?...
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