Cheers to CNG for publishing, in paper form, the catalogue of its RBW sale from December 2015! I received my copy in today's mail, totally...
I looked a little closer this time and noticed that many of these lovely coins also have great old provenances. Magnaguti, Gillet, etc. Really, a...
Excellent selection of quality coins. Well done!
What you have not told us is whether you sent your bank draft from within the UK or via international post.
There is one problem with your attribution...the date. While Crawford assigns this issue to 66BC, Hersh and Walker showed in The Mesagne Hoard,...
Thanks, it is a prominent sprue. Red's coin has some interesting sprue remnants at 1h on the reverse. I like when our coins display some of their...
It is an F, clear as day! I'm surprised I missed it. Congratulations on winning this interesting variety. I just won an exceptional example of...
The reverse inscription looks like "L•PISS" instead of PISO, but maybe the photo or my eyes are playing tricks on me!
This was a cleaning method that collectors often employed in the "old days". Just beware that repeated friction cleanings with a cloth can, over...
Here is a Diocletian PostAb follis from my collection. I'm not home now, so I cannot give any specifics on weight etc at this time. Another...
I've posted this story before on another forum. My first ancients were gifts to me from my Greek grandfather. I was a teenaged collector of U.S....
I would not recommend that vice method, because the coin could potentially land on the cement floor if the torque twists the holder too much. I...
A while ago, I consigned to FORVM Ancient Coins a group of medieval English hammered and early milled coins. This is good quality (in a few...
Thanks for the kind comments. Coin is at the bank, so I cannot easily reshoot a photo, but I have attached a better, old auction photo of the coin...
My example of Brutus Albinus is below. I acquired this coin at the 2016 NYINC. It was displayed in the Cincinnati Museum of Artfor many years. It...
Paris fell about one month later! Those letters are great - real time capsules. Basically coins were sent "on approval" in those days. Most coins...
My coins are stored in Abafil trays. For Aes Grave, I use the "deep" Abafil trays - they are double the depth of a normal tray.
I'm another. My degree was in ancient history and classical civilization. I would likely have been a classics major, if there were no Latin and...
That's one of the reasons I never bought a caliper - the good ones are made of metal, and I've no interest in tempting fate by holding a pointed...
Calipers might be useful, I suppose, but I have used my trusty ruler to measure my coins for many years. I simply hold the ruler over the coin...
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