You're right of course. I'm not condoning it one bit. But I also can't feel sorry for suckers. People should do their research.
Maybe, but in his case I don't think so. Anyone who has ever shopped for anything, anywhere, would recognize his cheesy used car salesman tactics...
The various cities of Pontos were very nice to ancient coin collectors and made many interesting coins that are easy on the budget. Here one of my...
So here's a guy that charges at least 5x what a coin is worth, taking his denarius into a shop that offers at most 1/5th of what anything's worth....
That's unusually well-detailed for a Pb tessera - no mistaking it for anything BUT an ant. Nice score!
Ah. That explains it! Thank you.
Wonderful coin! Probably collectors back in the day learned to size up photos of casts, expecting the surfaces to be a bit rougher in real life....
Very nice! Whenever I've said last, I always turned myself into a liar.
Overstriking was in fact quite common in the ancient Greek world, for various reasons. For an excellent overview, I recommend Overstruck Greek...
Nice looking collection of commems!
Very nice! I love the commanding bust of Vulcan. I don't have an example of the type but I recently found a scarce variety of one of Piso Frugi's...
I'm not calling it inauthentic. Syrian tets pose quite a few challenges when it comes to style. Depending on the period, the styles can be quite...
It doesn't look official - the style and fabric are weird. Maybe imitative? Edit: I just looked through a bunch of Caracalla tets of Antioch, and...
I like both examples of the type very much - getting that much detail from a 10mm coin is always great, never mind the off-center strikes. The...
Timely idea for a thread! I was going through stuff I haven't posted before to see if anything applied, and found this Renaissance Hungarian...
The format looks great in my opinion. I'd like to be able to read it. Maybe you could copy and paste the text into a post?
Beautiful coin - I looked at examples of the larger denominations and there are some varieties with abbreviated names. You've got all those...
Well, my point stands - all of the images are of an equally high quality. I realize much of that depends on the printing process, but you don't...
Damn, wish I could have joined you boys for some coining!
Yes, that's really why I bought the book. It wasn't an area of numismatics I was hugely interested in, although my interest in Medieval and...
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