Thanks for the tip! But, the reason that I haven't determined the places of origin isn't because I couldn't figure it out, it's because I'm simply...
That's the biggest dime that I've ever seen!
That makes for a pretty cool map! This type of thing reaffirms that I definitely fall onto the "collector" side of the spectrum as opposed to the...
Looks like Claudius to me! ;) From the looks of it, @Bing 's Caligula has Augustus on the reverse, and I've seen similar coins with Nero and...
My approach was similar to @Mat 's, I just tried to get one of each. Most ended up being denarii, but there are a few Asses thrown in there as...
I became involved in ancients a few years before the price spike. I'd say that, in the area in which I shop ($100-1000 slabbed Romans) the prices...
Always nice to tick the last item off the list, at first anyway. For me, it quickly feels anticlimactic and I feel the need to develop yet another...
I'd typically expect to see some lag with inflation showing up in the prices of collectables, as compared to things like food and material goods....
If collectors came up with the names, then they should have been more politically correct and used "Butt" instead of "As"! :) I'm pretty sure...
I know (have read) that in some cases, we have no idea what the contemporary peoples called the coins/denominations. Examples include, if I...
Maybe it's strange..... or maybe not, but the cataloguing, organization, and labeling processes represent a huge part of the enjoyment that I get...
I certainly like them, and plan to get one. But, I only started looking into them a few years ago and nearly every auction that I've ever seen has...
Assuming that a semblance of society, productivity, and a functioning economy remains, precious metals will probably always retain some value....
If we are talking about a truly "worst case scenario" here, then "owning" land won't really mean anything. When brutality rules, the person that...
What do you mean by "security for your family"? Are you trying to buffer against the economy completely collapsing? Like an emergency fund to get...
Collecting sure would be a lot more fun if I had mountains of cash to throw around with reckless abandon. That'll probably never happen, but an...
Not sure how I feel about Severus. He stepped in and rectified a chaotic situation, but fell heavily under the influence of his Praetorian Prefect...
I'm also a big fan of Pius. Given the standards of the day, he was probably about as ideal as could have been expected from a humanitarian...
You're welcome But, if you are after slabbed ancient coins then you'll have to learn to love NGC. They are pretty much the only name in that game.
Always like to see examples of useful ingenuity! You didn't use any duct tape though, which would have qualified as "Redneck Ingenuity" and...
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