[ATTACH] Yaudheya Republic, Punjab, 3rd century AD, Copper Unit, 23mm, 10.72g The reverse depicts "Goddess standing facing left, wearing...
C.T.B.S. [ATTACH] obol .61g Levante attributes this issue to Cilicia based on hoard evidence and similarities of the female head to other...
Project Gutenberg supplies an exact copy of Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Translated by Alexander Thomson and...
I have also noticed that denarii listed by sellers in Ukraine are very worn. Why? It is likely that the coins circulated in that region for a...
Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People...
It's far worse to have a tracked envelope containing a very rare coin vanish at the Vienna airport than to overpay for shipping on a coin you...
Reminder: This isn't just happening to gold. In copper, Jack Young has demonstrated very convincing repaired holed large cents....
Hole repairs good enough to fool third party graders were discovered a few years ago for American coins:...
The reason I call these "Western Turk" is because of Dietrich Schnaedelbach's short article "A group of countermarked imitative drahms of Hormizd...
Here is another "Kobadien": [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I have put Kobadien in quotes, because Stefan Heidemann told me he suspects these are not from...
The last coin on the first row is a likely replica of a shekel of Tyre. (But not THE shekel of Tyre.)
Wow, Vologases IV. I haven't thought about him in a while. [ATTACH] Drachm, 3.79 gm, Ecbatana mint [= Hamadān, Iran] The coin has the a very...
[ATTACH] Tetrobol, 2.29g. Purchased from Brian Kritt, January 2003. The depiction of the ketos on this example seems somewhat skeletonized. I...
(oops posted to wrong, long-dead, thread).
Some forgers have re-learned that extreme wear makes their mistakes easier to spot. Here is a worn Antiquanova.com replica above a mint state...
CoinLandia also has an Etsy page which makes it easy to see the 128 types of coins they currently offer. Although they say were founded in 2013,...
I have not submitted coins to ex-Numis. FYI: 75 minute video by Dr. Jonas Emmanuel Flueck discussing ex-Numis and how it works.
I believe they represent hooves. I have never seen Pan or a satyr with hooves on a Greek vase, though.
Here is a close-up of Mr. Satyr: [ATTACH] THRACE, Thasos, 411 - 404 BC. AR tritartemorion. 8mm, 0.42 g Obv: Head of horned, bald, bearded satyr...
DE NUMIS DISSERTATIONES XX can be searched at Google Books. The first illustrated, printed numismatic book is Illustrium Imagines (”Images of the...
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