Here are the remaining three that are going up for auction next week. I'd be surprised if we didn't find die matches among these types - it was a...
@CoinBlazer - PM me your address and I'll send you a freebie too. Gotta keep the youth interested. :)
Good job! Now you're ready to spend a little more on an ancient coin, like, say...two dollars. :p
Not TT but Π. Peltae, Phyrigia. Edit: you already got that, sorry!
@Lluis - I'll grant you there are a few bumps under seat, but bumps aren't always casting bubbles. There have to be other markers. You mention the...
Rodney Dangerfield as Roma, right after Constantine dumped him for Constantinople. [ATTACH]
Just for the record, it's not my theory that the Zeugma coins are drawn in perspective - that's the consensus of numismatic scholars. I'm not sure...
It's my kind of write-up! Congratulations on a great rarity. One of these days I'll find mine in a pick bin.
Is the style of the first one so "off" that it would be considered unofficial? The busts are quite crude...
$102!
Great read, thank you!
Super coins Jay! Helios with Native American war bonnet.
Thank you for your posts, Seth! I always learn something new. You are an educational asset to this forum!
Superb coin, thanks for posting! Sehr swanky packaging indeed - I've gotta get me some of those.
Very nice coins Jochen! Yes, it is dreadful when modern construction obliterates important archaeological sites. One wishes that Turkey would have...
Those are super details for a 13mm coin. It has a beautiful Medieval gestalt.
It's the personification of Contantinople. The obverse inscription reads CONSTANTINOPOLIS. They were minted during the time of Constantine and his...
Kroll suggests that all early 4th-century Owl Tets were remonetized in Athens, which explains the dearth of examples of those types in Athenian...
So Kroll estimates that the artificial overvaluation of the restruck coins came in between 3% and 5%. I wonder how that played out in commerce....
They aren't exactly rare - more like fairly scarce, but still, it isn't every day you come across seven in one place (unless you work at CNG...
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