The bubble in those years was real. A dealer from Italy bought this Larissa stater in a Swiss auction in 1972 for 8000 Swiss francs. I bought it...
Very nice coins with character and prestigious pedigrees in addition. Well done! I also wish you a similarly successful numismatic 2020!
A beautiful bronze @Ancient Aussie. Nice pics from the site. SICILY, Selinos. Circa 540-515 BC. AR Didrachm. Selinon leaf; two pellets across...
You may be wrong about that coin. The coin was sold by one of the members of this forum @ancientnut in Triton XXI alongside his other coins. I...
Your defence of Lanz is becoming ridiculous. You can’t blame people for insinuating that you are somehow closely connected with him.
As regards your personal attack on paparoupa by referring to the title he holds on FAC it is shameful that the owner of that site titles someone a...
Invoiced and paid last week. The coins are already with me.
Do you need special license or education to be a professional numismatist? For all I know you establish a bussiness and you can call yourself...
No need to be salty. TIF once pointed out one of my coins might be a fake and I am glad she did. I was able to return the coin and get a refund....
Great coin @Pavlos. Mine is a silver drachm from Phalasarna, overstruck as usual. [ATTACH] CRETE, Phalasarna. Circa 300-270 BC. AR Drachm (5.67...
For what its worth @Andrew McCabe and other gentlemen, a big auction of Republican coins used to illustrate the FFC (hopefully none of those...
Great tet Thierry! And the toning on yours @TIF - marvellous! I’ve got one with a nice craquelé metal as well. Amphipolis mint. [ATTACH]
Thanks again. I do not care that much about the exact grade. After all it isn't my coin. A friend of mine inherited a jar of gold coins from her...
Thanks to all of you! It is a beautiful coin.
Hi, how would you grade this coin? I cannot tell as I only collect ancient coins. Thanks![ATTACH]
Same reference as the OP coin (Price 1690) but different dies.[ATTACH]
I am reviving this thread to show you a Laos stater I have owned for a while but was lazy to snap some pictures. As lazy as I am, for the write-up...
I have recently acquired Galba with this particular attractive Spanish portrait style. While the reverse is far from perfect I find the potrait...
ACSearch only includes pre-1999 auction records from pre-WWII auction catalogues (exclusively German) which have been digitized by the Heidelberg...
When I started collecting I used the following article from Harlan Berk as guidance:...
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