Can I have the peanut butter cup on the right side ? [ATTACH]
The best "cherry pick" I ever scored is the Egyptian tet pictured below. I bought the coin about 25 years from Harlan Berk for a very modest...
I had Heritage auction the tet below in January of 2018. McAlee #264, Year 10 (AD 63-64), 27 mm, 14.94 gm. Much to my delight :D the coin sold for...
This is a good method to check the OD (outer diameter) of a coin if you don't have a vernier caliper ;).
I think the celator who cut the obverse on Bing's bronze coin may have also cut the obverse die on my Antioch tet :jawdrop:. What do you think...
Roman Collector, Why should an ancient coin sell for less slabbed versus raw o_O? You are buying what you see regardless of what is printed on the...
Having worked in Quality Control for 25 years (the machine tool industry) I can attest the only correct way to measure an outer diameter is by...
I sold the Volusian tet from Antioch pictured below at a Heritage auction, 14.58 gm, 27 mm, Prieur 703 (only 1 cited by prieur in the McAlee...
Roman Collector, of course it's a column, however it's not engraved with great skill. This coin type is very plentiful & the quality of engraving...
To illustrate Barry Murphy's post see the photos below. The 1st coin is one I sold 7 years ago that has very good metal for an Antioch tet. The...
Roman Collector, Congratulations on your new acquisitions :cool:! I love the 2nd denarius with Pietas sacrificing over the flaming alter, & the...
Lets not forget the Hunt brothers, those notorious billionaire scoundrels who tried to corner the silver market with Saudi help :shifty:! Nelson...
If someone had put a gun to my head I would have said #1. [ATTACH]
maridvnvm, Just for comparison here's another follis from the same mint & workshop :jawdrop:. Your coin has the longer & more desirable reverse...
The countermark on the 4th coin makes it a nice score, great patina too :D.
Valentinian, That's an unusually nice portrait from the Serdica Mint ;). I like the big folles too :smuggrin: & managed to score some nice ones...
Justin, It looks like the well went dry for coins of Caligula :meh:. I'm going to continue your thread with the succeeding emperor Claudius, AD...
Fortunately enough sculptures were made throughout the ancient Roman Empire that still exist today that we can get an accurate picture of what...
TIF, dougsmit, Jochen1, Roman Collector, & others, Roman provincial coins long considered the "black sheep" of ancient coin collecting are...
Since most of the coins posted on this thread are denarii I'd like to post my only denarius of Septimius Severus below. It is a common type struck...
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