My example, with snakes; ex Bement Collection, Naville VIII, 1924: [ATTACH]
Good coin. My example of the OP type and a related sestertius, also sans grain-ear: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I'm jaded and hard to impress and I like to come up with my own way of saying something... but this time, all I can do is parrot the rest of the...
Pompeys are a weak area in my collection, but are are a few: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Managed to find pics of my example of the OP coin. Surfaces are better than they seem here: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Overly dramatic/romantic coin description by dealers and collectors is a real phenomenon of course, but in the case at hand Crawford--not known as...
It's described variously, but sadly you're probably right and it is just a garden variety cap.
Trust me on this, I know the market value of Roman Republican silver as well as or better than literally anyone else in the world. I was asking...
Markup over what? Do you know what the seller paid for it? If you mean markup over some generic "fair" price, what would you consider fair for...
I noticed that coin! That's an exceptional example of a generally poorly produced type, very VERY hard to improve on. Congrats! I especially like...
Great comment IOM. I came late to this thread; I was about to ask the same question about the out of context quote. Glad I kept reading! You made...
Another possibility just this second occurred to me. Maybe the Eravisci didn't produce more dies because they literally couldn't. Maybe they only...
My wife wears this I guess maybe 4-5 times a year at the most, pretty much never against her skin, so the very real danger you warn against won't...
It's absolutely true that a lot of coins, ancient and modern, have been damaged by their use in jewelry, some slightly, some substantially. Unlike...
I see no particular reason to doubt the authenticity of this piece, but when a coin is this corroded, it's hard to really be sure. Assuming it is...
Alternatively, Orfew could ask NAC/Naville to try to find a comparable coin at a comparable or better price. They might even have something...
OTOH, if you were sitting in the room with your hand up and the lot closed before your bid was recognized, would you consider that you'd been...
Instead of asking random questions Doug, you could look it up: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000023815377;view=1up;seq=1
FYI, only the antiquities are from the Toledo museum. The coins are from various other sources; none of the coins are from Toledo.
Nothing was done "on the sly," Doug. BCD = ab initio was made explicitly clear in ab initio's initial post on this forum; a response in an...
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