18/20, but one incorrect was the price in 2002 of a mint state Gordian III silver coin.
Michael, Great find. This 1925 Hamburger sale is the Niklovitz Collection. You should add that to your provenance information. I believe I told...
Saturn on BOTH sides of this Roman Republican denarius from my collection: [ATTACH] Rome, The Republic. L. Appuleius Saturninus, 101 BCE. AR...
Finest I've ever seen. I think we previously discussed the rough example that I stupidly did NOT buy at NYINC several years ago. @Barry Murphy...
All fabulous examples and either best or top percentile of their respective types. A good year for Phil!
You would only use it to reference provenance if you owned one of the actual coins in the catalogue, or perhaps as proof that a coin is from the...
Maybe I missed some news. Moving to where @TIF ?
What you bought is an old auction catalogue by P&P Santamaria (an old Italian coin dealer and auction house) which had been rebound in hardcover....
All the museum talk above ignores several possible gems: American Numismatic Society; American Numismatic Association British Museum; Berlin...
Terrific photos, Andrew. Like @Alegandron , I saw Tut's U.S. roadshow in the 1970s and loved it. In the intervening few years, I'd forgotten the...
A few nights ago, I reunited two coins from the Reinhold Faelton Collection. Reinhold Faelton (1856 - 1949) was a musician, composer, the Dean...
Two very rare types of Carausius (286-293 CE), both from the "C" mint: a FIDES MILITVM and a CONCORDIA MILITVM: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
In 187 BCE, Marcus Fulvius Nobilior, celebrating victories in Greece, dedicated a Temple of Hercules Musarum in Rome, near the Circus Flaminius....
I started with a database in Lotus Organizer. When Lotus went defunct, I exported to a Windows Excel spreadsheet. When I got tired of...
I don't think so. Such flaps were on Corinthian-style helmets, not Attic-style helmets. Look at a New-Style tetradrachm for guidance. It shows a...
I too think it's hair. I made all these same arguments in an FAC string on the topic not too long ago. See below link....
It's not listed in those references because it is an "Italian" issue, not a "Roman" issue. In Historia Numorum Italy, Rutter lists it among the...
I have a Hieron II bronze, but it has been partially obliterated by this overstruck, Roman Republican AE Sextans: [ATTACH] Rome. The Republic....
My old eyes see no difference in the black backgrounds of the old Taras vs new Taras pics! The photo of the repainted stand looked much blacker,...
One of my favorite RR reverse types, which I didn't see posted previously: [ATTACH] Rome, The Republic. Pub. Lentulus P.f.L.n. Spinther, 71 BCE....
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