This is supposed to be a stater from Mytilene. It should normally weight 10-11 g so you got a fake
I recently noticed that out of the 800 Greek coins currently in HA there are several NGC slabbed marked as brushed. This can't be a coincidence. I...
I find the new coin much better in all aspects it has more details, it is less worn and the old one has a weak strike in several letters anyway. I...
Last time I opened my skeleton closet I found a small board with a stereo amplifier based on an ST IC I soldered 25 years ago. I was quite...
Most probably these are oak leaves, compare with the photo in this one...
And the easiest way to get access to the sought data is sometimes stealing the physical records or physically abusing the data curator. Cyber...
It is important to remember that whatever the symbol used, the sound was always the same, so it was not pronounced Cela. Different symbols were...
I hate to defend him but FYI Lanz was a well respected dealer for at least 20-30 years. There are many great coins coming in the market from his...
Oh boy I think you just revealed to me that my origin is from this city :woot::woot::woot::woot::woot:
I think this is an error. It is common for English to pronounce x as a z (eg Xerox). The Greek letter is Ξ/ξ and is pronounced as "ks". It has...
Apart from the Stankomb section which I can't tell why it brought such high hammer prices, I found that the prices in the Greek section were...
My favorite lion is the one of Hekatomnos [ATTACH]
Alan or whoever wrote this, left out a good part of the story which is as follows below. If you wonder what the heck Genoa had to do in Crimea,...
I would love to get a muramasa blade but it would cost more than an Euainetos dekadrachm, the possibility of getting a fake blade is larger than...
Thanks to this influx I managed to get this from kunker, otherwise the last time I was successful in their auctions was 6 years ago :banghead:...
I strongly believe that all recent electrum (kyzikos and lesbos) are from the same source as the Athenian tetradrachms and the rest of the recent...
Let's say 50% gold content for hektes of 2.5 g. So 1.3 pure gold with the currently super high prices of gold it's no more than 80$ best case...
While I was upset on some occasions with Roma (mainly because of some of their employees), I still buy from them. Mr Beale seems to be a rational...
Have a look to the left of the lion, do you see something? There's ΛΕ, initials for Lesbos. The reference for your coin is Bodenstedt 14. There's...
It would be truly a blessing for collectors if investment funds and all kinds of speculators turn away from ancients due to the crisis.
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