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Can I request that you add a blurp on why provenance is so important to your collection?
Wow, tens of thousands of dollars...Nope. someone needs a better investigator!
Here's my only Marcus Aurelius coin. But it's not a bust of him. It is Lucius Verus. [ATTACH] RPC IV, 2350 Galatia, Ancrya AE, 3.68g, 17mm Obv:...
Here's a recent acquisition. This fits nicely in my "Lunar" or "celestial" catergories. CILICIA. Hierapolis-Castabala. Faustina II (Augusta,...
There are several threads on here that hash this out. The terms you need to be familiar with are smoothing, tooling and cleaning. Instead of...
Here's an interesting cleaning job that puts this coin into the Triton action. This is a extremely heavy coin from Nysa. This is Hadrian and Men...
Interesting tau-rho. Did you realize that it is backwards?
It does appear to be a li k. but the first coin has 10+ buttons on the collar. The second only has 8 buttons. Could have been reworked die though.
USPS did you a favor! Set your coins free. They survived this long. They are meant to be held.
1. See if there is a club near you. If so attend. If not email the club and see if they do remote attendance. Highly recommend this option. The...
[ATTACH] Here's my recently acquired example. This type has the staurogram aka tau-rho. I haven't been able to find a reference for this type....
Rare for sure. But artistically not very appealing, to me. And can someone explain what is going on with horse? Was the die rusty?
Make sure you are using acid-free paper if your coins are in contact with their tags.
Almost have the McAlee series filled in my collection. Still missing 792A which has the tiny epsilon below the ram and 793 with a smaller ram l...
The 3 dots are part of the laureate. Here's two examples that show that clearly. Philip the Arab Elagabalus
You might want to reassess your findings. The portrait is more likely to be Severus Alexander. Elagabalus portraits on the bronzes have a rounder...
These large ΔE with a star is a series of weights I am starting on. These range from around 2.7 to just a bit over 10.0g. All elagabalus coins,...
I mention this small series because it is an outlier in the S-C series. You have S-C with delta E and then the S-C with KA. This type is...
McAlee writes that the Elagabalus eagle series will a star may be minted at Emesa or Loadicea rather than Antioch. McAlee, p14.
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