5/5 doesn't mean "perfect strike". It means top 80% of strikes for New Style tets. This coin is centered, and fully struck, which is saying a...
These are called "magic frames" or "floating frames" https://www.lighthouse.us/magic-frame.html...
Some dealers we like, such as Frank Robinson, sell replicas. Frank always uses COPY, capitalized and underlined, in his auction text. That's...
I posted the gem cutting video because I have never been able to find pictures of video of the cutting of a coin die. There are plenty of guys...
It is believed that the same artists who carved gems also sunk dies. Here is a video showing how gems were carved: [MEDIA]
The weights on fractions of Abydos vary a lot! They vary so much that I was trying to figure out if they had a non-standard set of denominations,...
I would be curious to see the coin before its unfortunate encounter with the shredder. It was apparently whole in e-38, 24 September 2001, lot...
Here is something smaller: [ATTACH] Lydia. Tripolis. Pseudo-autonomous issue (198-218 or 193-268 AD or "Time of the Antonines".) AE 15 mm, 1.67...
All coins with Alexander's name on them were arranged by Martin Price, and organization has been put online with examples from the museum...
I have had this for 15 years and only learned this coin comes from an island last week! [ATTACH] Ionia, Klazomenai / Circa 480-400 BC. AR Obol...
SICILY, Syracuse. Like this.
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