Curtis - Blake Davis here - a couple of days ago I found a Caracalla sestertius for sale - a rather scarce one - on Italian ebay. A few months...
P.S. Coins from Kyme seem to be pretty common now - I saw one that looked like this for $40 on VCOINS
I have sold many of this type, although in lesser condition. Still $245 seems like a high price - unless this is a really rare type.
I think you have you are confused about the definition of “imperialist” - with modern nation states seeking to impose their power against others...
US Customs is not only difficult but it is corrupt - I found that out representing someone accused of smuggling - although he was exonerated, we...
Fascinating coin!
Check out the site “Four Bad Years” for wonderful examples of Trajan Decius.
Provenance is one thing authenticity is another - if it is authentic who cares where it came from as long as it wasn’t stolen? By stolen I mean...
Actually my comment has nothing to do with the people finding the coins, rich, poor, gangs etc. My comment had to do with the nation state...
Many years ago when I first started selling ancient coins, ca. 2000, I helped a friend sell about 300 hundred ancient coins that he had inherited...
Heck, I have enough trouble attributing some of the coins - provenance seems a near impossible task. Although Mr. Clay did note that one of my...
I come back to this coin again and again - just a lovely lovely sestertius, and for me anyway, Septimius' earlier sestertii are not typically that...
The small Imperial coin might be a poorly made AE4 of Honorius. I do not think it is one of the late emperors, as I first suspected from the flan.
Yes it should but I thought it would be easier to read the lettering if it was tilted this way - that there are three or four letters visible and...
I don’t think any are Byzantine - sorry for the error
I also mixed up my description! 3 should be 2!
As with anyone who handles a number of ancients that come unattributed, there are those coins which I feel should be attributable but for some...
I have a nice As of Caracalla with this reverse that I’ll post. A Severan sestertius of (I think) Caracalla - or Septimius ? with this reverse...
I have a book that has Perpetua’s diary or journal that goes through what happened in detail - the book includes a modern description of what...
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