Congratulations for your fantastic aureus ! it's funny because i really have the same criteria as you regarding the possible acquisition of an...
Thank you all for your very encouraging comments. ahah, sorry for that ! I was also the underbidder on many coins this year :banghead: For this...
I recently discovered the CT ancient coins community, thanks to a collector friend. I really enjoy browsing the members’ Top 10 of the year, i...
Congratulations on these great purchases. My favorite is also the tetredrachm of Athens and BTW I am very surprised to have missed this...
My coin in the worst condition is also a coin i was very happy to purchase as a collector of incuse coins of Magna Graecia. It is a drachm of...
This one is a modern forgery but fourrées and barbarous imitations are known for Syracuse cf Boehringer Taf. 28-29 and the article of Christof...
It is an obvious fake
An interesting reference on Istros coinage is the catalog "First Auction", Auction 1 Geneva 2012 where was dispersed a collection of more than 450...
Well, i have some electrotypes with the edge seam very well hidden... The Rhegion tetradrachm weighs 14.5g way under the theoretical weight of 17.4g
just FYI , this coin is badly described as "Hill Becker 21" by CNG, it is in fact an electrotype of the BMC 119 coin : [ATTACH] A BMC...
Congratulations, this is an excellent study as we await the new corpus to be published by Gil Davis. Even if some discussions remain regarding...
The Luxor Obelisk was a gift from Egypt to France in 1830. It is exactly as if you were saying that the statue of Liberty needs to be returned to...
Yes, I would attribute it to the 2nd series
I always wondered if these offers were real. For example I find the offer for your coin very surprising and if I were you I would sell it for that...
Very nice !! The three coins from Leontini seem to have the very same patina... Here is mine, same obv die Rizzo Tav. XXIII, 2 [ATTACH]
Carthage debased its gold and silver coins between the mid of the fourth century and the end of the third BC
Finally I have one that could compete with one of yours, I would have liked that it was the trihemistater of Carthage. :) many thanks and keep...
@Alegandron : very nice coin !! i agree with @Silphium Addict for the attribution and recent studies tend to attribute your coin to carthage or to...
This one is also a well known fake obv die. [ATTACH]
https://www.persee.fr/doc/dha_2108-1433_2014_sup_12_1_4027
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