Fantastic images, @dougsmit . Are these made with focus stacking like some of your others or just in one shot? I've never managed to adequately...
My self-imposed quantity is a deliberate choice and one which would apply regardless of budget (and isn't a hard-line rule like some take with a...
Ancients are a great era to collect because absolutely no one - not even the British Museum - could ever hope to build a "complete" collection....
Just from a private seller, unfortunately. Auctions may indeed incur additional costs (although that seems like something which should have been...
This is superb, congratulations on a lovely collection. It also highlights how differently everyone collects: I am very much a "type" collector...
That's ridiculous. Is the book 5,000 pages long? That's far higher than any book I've had shipped from the UK using the Royal Mail.
For the price of a real silver example, you can get a picture of a real gold example!!
That's not true, nor is it necessarily better to be conservatively graded. NGSA sent all of their aurei through NGC for this latest sale: most are...
.... You've been around coin forums long enough to already know this answer but I'll say it anyway... Why does an MS67 of the same type cost...
I agree, and incidentally I bid a bit over half the final price on that Ptolemy bronze. At some point, it just doesn't make sense even if the coin...
That's like saying you can't afford a car because there is a $5M Bugatti. A brief search will show you that thousands of coins depict a high...
It's always nice when threads are resurrected. Here's my only Hunt coin from the first catalog, which was Hunt's "flagship" coins. I don't have...
Unpopular opinion: many aurei are overrated. Gold survives more easily than copper/silver so it's expected that they'll still exist. They're...
Just went through the sale and here's a handful of others than the one originally posted... someone really wanted these:...
Prices have indeed been extremely strong - sometimes flatly irrational - but based on the fact that a number of collector friends have bought...
There are some Rhodes heads which don't resonate with me, especially on tetradrachms where the style is too... Sylvester Stalone. However, this...
The surfaces on the Berenike look far nicer than when it sold in NGSA 5, lot 151. Hopefully that wasn't too deep of a cleaning to damage the coin....
We'd fill up the forum with all of the likely fakes in that auction... it's truly disappointing.
I tend to agree. The service NGC provides has more than paid for itself for me. I don't leave my coins in slabs but I value the impartial, third...
You have a very fun job, Barry! The Euainetos and 5 Shekel both have very similar toning (and it looks like the Kimon is starting to pick up some...
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