Is the JC aureus a smoothed reincarnation of NAC 83 406? Which sold for $320,000 + in 2015? If so, what gives offering it at $130k now? Here are...
The Seven Hills Hoard is a fabrication, like the so-called Colosseum Hoard, found only on NGC slabs, read this. You will not find it in any...
Interesting thread, interesting coins. In some cases it's obvious that the look-back conserves space on the flan. In other cases, it just looks...
Wonderful coin TIF, accompanied by a nice lesson in numismatics, as usual!
Nice coins everyone, congrats to Chris on a great addition. At the moment I have only one of Peroz for show-and-tell. Tough coins to photograph in...
Always love a carnyx thread! Those low growly notes the guy on youtube gets out of the instrument are fierce and ominous. The cacophony of a dozen...
Topcat, sorry, but if you're bidding big bucks on an eBay seller's dimly-lit, garage-slabbed coins, you're a fool, lol. I don't mean any offense...
Well as long as we're sailing along the southern coast of the Black Sea, I have a coin that arrived yesterday from Pharnakeia. A little rugged,...
You can't contact bidders anymore. Everyone is private by default. Contacting other bidders was a thing of the early, Wild Wild West days of eBay....
Your coins have very nice details, Nicholasz. Seleucid bronzes circulated heavily, and most were left to be ravaged by the arid Levantine clime....
The slabs aren't to blame in my opinion. Collectors of moderns know the difference between good slabs and garage slabs. On THAT basis alone,...
This sort of thing used to make me very angry at counterfeiters and sellers of fakes, but these fakes are so egregiously bad that only someone who...
They're not too dark for my tastes, but I like my screen brightness turned up to max, which makes a difference. I think they're great shots.
Pic looks great @Jwt708 and thanks for expanding on the purge @Magnus Maximus . I didn't want to make the first post too long.
Not much is known of Flavius Hanniballianus - he was the son of Delmatius and therefore nephew of Constantine I. Han married Constantine's...
Great idea, but it's not fair to show just one side of the coins!
I don't know why some dealers have to mark their coin images like that. Advertising I suppose. I'm of the mind that if you buy the coin, you buy...
Those are some protrusions that you find on the bottom of the standards sometimes - I don't know exactly what they are. In the case of the second...
Thank you to @vespasian70 for the clarification on the fineness - I really do learn something new on this forum every day. I found the OP coin at...
I love that coin. What people might not appreciate from the pic is that the bust is about 5-6 millimeters in height. That's some astonishing...
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