At $1,475 with a day to go! I'm getting some popcorn ready......
This is politics. Every once in a while CBP has to make a bust along with a press release in order to satisfy politicians. This is why petitions...
Those coins are still valuable. Just sell them and use the money to buy coins which were already slabbed. Et voila, problem solved!
It's an EF coin don't get me wrong. Almost certainly had its patina stripped with electrolysis which takes literally only a few seconds. Good way...
There's a little bit of blame to go around I'd say. On the one hand it's easy for an auctioneer to miss noting tooling that's well done and not...
If you needed another reason to hate on ancient coin slabbing: https://www.ebay.com/itm//133055413585 To call this coin mint state is just...
The definition of smoothing given above is only partially true. In addition to the "shaving down" of adhesions, smoothing is also meant by...
I wonder if they're somehow confusing this with Domitian II. On the other hand, the quote below doesn't sound like something a Roman coin expert...
"Incredibly rare" coin of Laelianus found at dig, says the BBC (their quote) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-48314102 I think...
Restoring ancient coins is really two hobbies in one. The restoration process itself - as long as it's not the Brillo pad method - can be quite...
There is no uncontroversial way to say where the cutoff is either from a historical or numismatic point of view. That it's typically recognized as...
Terence this is why it was necessary to take into account ALL auctions available for the period covered. The study took not only the lots from...
Curious to hear about what happened when the teacher got showed up on XL vs XXXX :hilarious:
Every once in a while my eye catches what I think are outdated or non-standard forms of Latin names of Roman emperors (and empresses) and wonder...
A few years ago I tried to tackle this problem scientifically so as to come up with a system was at least somewhat based on factual data rather...
I am taking the warning seriously. Sixbid is just a portal. I can still use it to browse what's coming up and then bid through the appropriate...
This is true. If the database was hacked the password is irrelevant. If their database is anything like 99% of the databases out there the...
Holy cow that's a full on goiter neck! hahah
Poor thing's been cleaned to the point I think I can make out Julian's facial bones :-( Keep it in your wallet or on a window sill for a few...
We could also add Clodius Macer for his historical relevance. Galba averted civil war by pretending to set up a truce but the ambassadors were...
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