Early electrum staters have a nice chunky feel to them, weighing 15-16 grams: Here's one from Kyzicus: [ATTACH] And one from Lampsacus, which...
I share this coin regularly but it's my best Hera and one of my favorites: [ATTACH]
Here's some red and blue: [ATTACH]
Just received it now so I suspect you'll have it soon.
No invoice yet here; I suspect they're swamped producing them.
I almost thought they stole my coin but it's just an incredibly similar example: [ATTACH] From the Robinow collection, Morton & Eden 24 October...
This is exactly my experience as well. I had almost a dozen bids across NAC/Nomos and my dealer talked me out of 9 of them. I was encouraged to...
This is baffling to me too... $5K coins are being purchased for $30-50K with no rhyme or reason. I think the telemarketer types are capitalizing...
Asking price isn't sales price but I agree that the coin should be worth less now than before.
These sales (as well as Nomos) were brutally expensive in many places due to a number of new players in China and Russia spending mountains of...
I use Quickslabs for most of my coins but they are indeed not deep enough for an Athens tetradrachm and some others. I'm intrigued by the...
That definitely sounds like a safer strategy than my "whack it with a hammer for a while" approach.
I had a mild heart attack thinking that the de-slabbing caused the test cut but re-read your description and calmed down! It's well worth granting...
I'd never seen one of these before. Someone at Stearns must have really loved ancient coins; what an esoteric yet fantastic marketing item!
Congratulations! A neat coin and a great pedigree!
My wife doesn't collect coins but she is thankfully enthusiastic about them (a history lover) and we regularly go through auction catalogs...
That's an atypically attractive Nerva portrait, @DonnaML , and a worthy top 10 addition! I've posted it a few times already but my first coin of...
No, but it did make me glad to have bought most of my books some years ago... I thought coins were getting expensive; books can be brutal!
That reverse is incredible. Congratulations!
I've consigned this example in the upcoming Nomos auction as lot 76. It's of the attractive "Signed K" variety, finely styled on both sides, and a...
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