with less than 100% confidence, I'd vote to clean it. That is a great find. The bits of metal you can see under the deposits do not look bad. You...
Crawford has a table of over-strikes. He used this information to help order some coins. The corn ear-KA sextans over Hieron II (Poseidon/Trident)...
@Valentinian - good post, sent my renewal today also. I feel like DQ fighting windmills when I read about how easily coin import restrictions...
@Curtisimo @Deacon Ray My package from Israel arrived today, 2/27/17. I ordered the book on 2/19/17. Eight days shipping from Jerusalem... not...
I am not sure yet. My first guess is a flip-over double strike. You can see a clean example in my post of the coin -...
@Carausius @red_spork @TIF I have seen several corn ear KA overstrikes recently. I thought this one was interesting because it was a corn ear (no...
Love your minnow @stevex6 ! That's pronounced minner back home. Mine small fish is an AE13, dolphin [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Italy....
My guess is flip-over double strike. This one has both Dioscuri visible in front of Roma's nose. I can not line-up the under-type on the reverse....
@TIF I thought of you as I waited a looooooong time while the Roman Prov. coins were sold. There were plenty of odd animal reverses. I wanted one...
Look at the coin pictured below and tell me what you see - [ATTACH] Roman Republican AR Denarius Publius Aelius Paetus; Rome mint; 138BC. Obv -...
I picked up a few coins today and could not wait to post something. Post your over-strikes or something like the over or under types. A longer...
I do not have a history from Israel, but I just bought a book from there. It will be interesting to see how long it takes. The web site said 4 - 6...
Nice coin @maridvnvm ! I think of you (and your plumb bob / level coin) when I see these in an auction. This one went for the minimum today. I...
@dougsmit love that Oval from Athens. Is it an early issue? fraction? Athena looks much less feminine than usual.
Not round is common for RR coins - [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I seldom measure thickness of coins. I usually measure the thickness of cast bronze items, especially bars.
I do not worry about cracks that were formed during minting like the one on @Orfew 's Vespasian. I worry lots about cracks due to...
I have one of those snake coins - with a neat die marker [ATTACH]
Nice coin! My win is far more pedestrian, but an interesting type none the less. It was near the opening bid, I was a bit distracted and just bid...
This is my oxymoron coin. When I hold youth auctions, I introduce this coin as the ugliest US coin.... on the obverse. I like the artwork and...
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