[ATTACH] My Mommy cow and little cow coin. Speaking of "animal coins" I have discovered that some of the early republic bronze "prow series"...
I think the "winged liberty" dime is the most attractive of US coins but see below... wiki-The Mercury dime is a ten-cent coin struck by the...
[ATTACH] Pompey the Great. 45-44 B.C. AE as (28 mm, 23.42 g, 11 h). Sicilian mint. [ MA]GN, laureate head of Janus with the features of Cn....
[ATTACH] My latest RR. And I paid way too much for this pretty obverse. Anonymous. 211-208 B.C. AE sextans (19 mm, 4.92 g, 10 h). Mint in...
I love this coin! The obverse is so weird.
[ATTACH] This is the drachm version of the type. I hunted for months for this coin after reading Antigonos the One Eyed. This issue commemorates...
Buying urine? What for?
So ......let me get this untangled....at one time the "standard" was the "As" and then the denarius became the reference of monetary value? And we...
I have a "quinarius" (actual McCabe coin on his site) that notes say "around 211 BC, =5 As. Whats up with that? Here is that coin...[ATTACH]
I was looking for the guy that had the scoop.I assumed it was about devaluation and tariffs and such. It's a "start up" phenom.
This is very helpful!
Quadrans over Uncia? So, half a denarius over 1/12 of an As? And 4 As make a denarius? Somebody stop me!! This is math! And I'm sure it's all...
and he has a good point! some of those coins are total dogs.
Got it, thanks.
Huh? What "stinkers"? My coins are US and all PCGS graded?
Finally an overstrike that I can actually see. Thanks!
UPDATE: my 7 coins are listed for auction at Great Collections for 11 days starting yesterday 1/13/2016. I had valued the set at $2249 and let GC...
2 more provincials from Phoenicia to note the patinas. The OP coin is reloaded for comparison. Elagabalus (Sidon), Macrinus ( Berytus), Caracalla...
[ATTACH] The E man and a temple in Nicaea.
I don't know why I keep buying these type coins. I'm a sucker for a "sandy patina" even though there is a reasonable chance that the patina comes...
Separate names with a comma.