Welcome to the club - when I joined this forum I was collecting Kennedy half dollars. Nothing wrong with that of course, but ancient coins opened...
Great coins Mat! I recently discovered big French ecus as well and now I'm on the lookout for them. It satisfies the guilty pleasure of collecting...
Very nice OP coin! Congratulations. I have two with nice provenance. The first comes from Fred Shore, author of Parthian Coins and History, Ten...
It probably goes without saying that collectors of ancient coins have to deal with far many more flaws than collectors of moderns. You level up...
Yes, and perhaps Doug is right, as some raw bronze is showing through on the devices as well, along with scratches. This coin may have received...
The edges are perfectly fine. These flans were cast, and then the edges were filed in order to trim them before striking. Edit: I see that Doug...
Gorgeous coin! As long as you're not paying a stupid price for it, it will hold its value.
Here is a much scarcer iteration of the she-wolf motif on a provincial bronze of Macrinus from Laodicea. I've attempted to photograph this coin...
Both are super coins, nice score!
That's a very cool picture, @ancientone ! I think your photography is just fine. I have this tetartemorion of Mylasa on the way, 6mm, 0.28g......
Super coins! Here's a lifetime issue. This coin has fantastic high relief on the obverse - I'll have to take some better pics tomorrow......
Yes, quite right! Sorry - it's amazing how things get stubbornly stuck in your brain, even when you know they're incorrect.
There are mules also... [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I've got another 65 grammer at the moment... [ATTACH]
It's a wonderful image, but take it from someone who has sorted through bags of hundreds of coins, it's work: tedious, mind-numbing, eye-glazing...
That coin is a splash hit!
That's an absolutely fabulous provincial type, Mikey. Great score! I don't believe Artemis is depicted in such a way on any of the pre-Roman...
Don't give me any ideas!
Ahahaha, lol. Well somebody had to tell your coins are crap, Z. Total CRAP. :woot:
Heh - I'm chuckling at the description of the bust as "rude" rather than "crude." What is the line between highly stylized and rude?
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