I'll guess Aurelian.
I like to think that, at least from a stability standpoint, Septimius was the best option to have come out on top from the Year of the Five...
A quick search of Heritage results produced this, but I'd guess that some other details coin may have sold for more elsewhere. Heritage alone has...
I don't remember the exact year, but I once found an Indian Head cent back when I used to hunt rolls. It was well worn and nothing special, but it...
Right?! If I had billions, I'd have a team of numismatists on staff with standing orders, "If the worlds best example of any coin comes up for...
The sale prices of ancient coins jumped significantly over the past 3-4 years, which in turn resulted in a noticeable increase in the supply of...
The legal troubles are one thing (at a minimum he faked provenance, and maximally he knowingly profited from the sale of a looted coin). While...
Thanks for the heads up. I've been considering venturing into overseas auctions, but I'll be sure to steer clear of Roma. Even if the transactions...
Like I've always said: Good hobbies are the ones that don't cost money while having fun, but the best hobbies are the ones that provide the...
I've been a bit of a compulsive collector since childhood, and have went through everything from coins and baseball cards to fishing lures and...
So... did Roma make you square in the end? Or were you stuck with the loss?
My collection spans from Caesar to Theodosius I's sons, and will ultimately consist of 150 coins. At this point, I'm sitting at 121/150, so still...
I supposed that I've become cynical enough to not bother considering moral implications in corporate decision making processes :inpain:
That ^ would actually be worth the trouble! I'm kind of surprised that Coinstar didn't have the forethought to account for silver coinage and so...
I have no idea about PCGS Hong Kong...... but based on the controlled demeanor in which you describe this situation in your post.... I do know...
I'd have to pop back into the shop tomorrow and see whether the fake is back in the case. If it was being passed off as real again, then I'd know...
Silver dimes randomly laying around in parking lots, and a thread earlier today about an ancient Roman coin found while hiking in Indiana. Sounds...
I'm sure that there are other ways, but if you couldn't tell simply by looking at it, then measuring the mass and volume (or simply diameter)...
I'm not saying that Greece has a rock solid historical claim to the coin. But, if the coin was found in an area that Greece had deemed to be a...
Like every other ancient coin collector, I don't want this type of thing to snowball to the point of absurdity. However, IF this particular coin...
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