Superb, congratulations!
Bravo, fantastic collection!
lol :woot:
That, or aliens.
I've seen that on RR denarii. Does it exist in imperial issues? I've never come across scoops or sprues on imperial silver. I'm guessing the metal...
It would seem Western mints were more careful about filing them down. You're right, they are less common from places like Trier and Lugdunum, come...
I agree with Chris concerning denarii, but plenty of LRB can be found with sprues... [ATTACH]
What a great coin! The idea of chump change is funny, but maybe not too far off the mark. I know it's much heavier, but it's close to the diameter...
This video is an old chestnut, and it is indeed fun to watch. For my tastes, they could have stretched it out to an hour and shown all the...
I'm always struck by the disparity of styles you find with these types. Some evince a "High Roman" representational aesthetic in the busts, others...
I just got one of these bad boys myself... [ATTACH]
They are wondrous little rocks of silver, aren't they? Congratulations!
Return it. I've returned items to sellers that supposedly didn't take returns. One I asked politely and he said sure, no problem. The other I...
That's not at all poor, @Bing! You takes what you can gets with Aelius, unless you're willing to spend hundreds of dollars. That coin has a great...
Lucius Aelius Caesar was Hadrian's adopted son and heir to the throne. (In case you're new to Hadrian, he wasn't, shall we say inclined to make...
Seleucia Pieria was a town in the Syrian tetrapolis that included Apameia, Laodicea, and Antioch. It was founded by Seleucus I Nicator, hence it's...
Doug's point is a good one concerning all barbarous issues. If we eliminate style, we eliminate a huge measuring stick when it comes to vetting...
The building of the Colosseum and the Roman conquest of Judaea are very much pivotal events in history. I like the coin brassnautilus posted very...
What lettering can be seen is definitely not ancient. Some sort of token that's seen much better days?
There was some discussion earlier about how many coins with JQA provenance he actually collected, how many were simply bought in bulk and tossed...
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