I didn't know that :oops:. Thanks!!
Great idea for a thread! As mentioned in your recent Coiniversary thread, one of my favorites is this thread started by @arnoldoe:...
May Asklepios and his flying serpent cure your ills :) [IMG] THRACE, Pautalia. Caracalla CE 198-217 AE29, 16.4 gm Obv: AYT K M AY CEY ANTΩNEINOC;...
I agree with Curtis. Please know that I am not an expert but I see no overt signs of fakery. The fabric and style look like other examples of...
That is hilarious and wonderful! What a great pair.
Whose is it? Are you vetting it for a friend, or are you considering buying this coin?
Can we have more information? Diameter, weight, and from whom you acquired it are pretty basic data points in trying to assess authenticity by...
:) Can you make out any of the obverse legend? Although I didn't study them carefully, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus both issued this reverse...
:D Thanks, Ryro! I'll confer with @Curtisimo and we will come up with a plan :).
Excellent acquisition, @H8modern! I have no Athens owls (not counting a new style tet from a large lot). The fractional is very interesting and...
I'm not sure how relevant the following threads will be to the modern coin you're inquiring about, but if you're interested in learning more about...
A quick Google search shows many which look like this coin and the general style seems okay. It's hard to say much else though due to the poor...
Don't worry, you're not alone :D [ATTACH] They're growing on me though and there are some LRBs on my want list :). ... Sorry for the detour,...
An alternative to the above steps would be to plug a few terms into ACsearch since it is a larger database than Wildwinds. For example, with your...
Let's walk through it, 7C... You know (or hopefully know) it is a provincial Roman coin. In hand you can probably make out some of the obverse...
Good stuff in this thread-- thanks for the laughs! In the following picture the price isn't the problem (that's Trinidadian dollars, only ~13.35...
Okay. No offense intended :). There is numismatic value beyond the weight of the gold, if the coin is authentic and if you collect them.
If it is authentic, it seems to be a fanam (modern era, India), which is a tiny speck of a coin. I don't know enough about these modern coins to...
It sure seems that way to me too, at least for the coins I collect :(. Pretty soon I'm going to start sounding like @dougsmit :eek::D.
Oh, okay. Thanks. If the OP is no longer editable, one of the moderators can reinstate the edit button and @Andrew McCabe can edit the post to...
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