BenSi, Nice score on the 40 nummi coin :)! Is this an early strike o_O? You usually don't see profile views of Justinian on 40 nummi coins of...
a.c.h. The gold histamenon nomisma is a beauty :happy:! The Christ image shows some doubling but the rest of the obverse is crystal clear. Great...
Voulgar. I enjoyed your well researched article :happy:! Both of these coins have fascinating iconography & your sharp eye did a great job of...
The follis pictured below I bought many years ago & lost track of it when I moved to Churchville, NY. This weekend I found the coin at the bottom...
[ATTACH] Italy, Kingdom of Sicily & Naples, Frederick III, AD 1296-1337. AR Pierreale: 3.15 gm, 24 mm, 1 h. MEC-772
I have seen this handsome coin before but don't remember where or when :confused:. I'm going to select Parthicus for this coin for the same...
Mkm5, I wouldn't be happy with a coin like that :mad:, & would get it back to them ASAP. Tell them you want a coin equal to the one they pictured...
J.G., That's a nice looking, well centered coin ;).
Mkm5, That's a pretty rough looking coin :eek:! Are you going to keep it or send it back?
Why don't you get your facts straight before posting a buffoon-like diatribe. It doesn't cost $50 to slab a coin with a value of $300 or less, it...
Alegandron, Congrats on your historic milestone :happy:! [ATTACH]
Wow :jawdrop:! Lovely portrait & stunning reverse.
I'm guessing it was too much port wine late in the evening :smuggrin:. [ATTACH]
The subject of slabbing versus raw ancient coins has been discussed into exhaustion so I won't belabor the issue; everyone knows where I stand on...
The 2 folles pictured below show how easy it is to confuse the coins of Maximiam & Galerius. Both were struck at the Ticinum Mint & both have...
+VGO.DVCKS, I had nothing to do with this article & have never met Mike Markowitz. I'm a member of academia.edu, but have never written anything...
I'm going to guess bcuda on this coin because of a thread he posted on January 4, 2021. In that thread he wrote "I had only seen pictures of them...
P.O.M., I did a double take on that coin :wideyed:, & personally I wouldn't touch it. There are so many good fakes of this issue, buyer beware :p....
Nomos / Obolos used to be a favorite fishing pond of mine for Roman-Syrian Tets, however, I haven't won anything from them in recent years :(. You...
[ATTACH] Roman Republic, Anonymous, 209-208 BC, Mint in Sicily. AR Denarius: 18.5 mm, 4.19 gm, 11 h. Obverse: Roma. Reverse: Dioscuri on...
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