Exceptional coins! Don't let Bill and Kerry talk you into collecting Chinese spade money and Roman tesserae. That stuff is crap. :p
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that most of these are so common that nobody bothers counterfeiting them. I'm sure there are rare types,...
Those bronze coins of Kyme were not plated, so the silvery stuff is probably mineral deposits. Nice example of the type!
Not Indian States, Mauryan. Looks like it has enough of the punch marks to attribute exactly. I don't have the reference, but others here do....
It's odd to see this thread bumped and read old conversations with Rudi. Rudi made his journey to the big bourse in the sky last year, rest his soul.
This is on my top-ten list of collections to visit. I had hoped to see it on the trip to NYINC, but couldn't swing an extra day. For now it'll...
After a little digging of my own, I believe you are correct. Man, you are going to get some jealous RR collectors in this thread. That's a mighty...
I told myself I was on a buying freeze to save money for NYINC, but myself is very ornery and refuses to listen to me. :mad: Here's a denarius of...
I hate when that happens.
Yes. Distilled water soaks and gentle brushing. That will keep the patina intact.
Postumus makes the best Santa Claus. Here's one with copious hair detail... [ATTACH]
The coin has good detail and is worth cleaning. As an uncleaned coin, I would pay around $15 for it.
Yes.
I suspected as much. I've been looking for any hoard evidence where Severan bronze denarii occur in the ME, and I've come up empty handed. It...
So Agrippa did make these types. I had only seen them by Otho before.
This is the triumphal coinage of 7 BC. Only this one on CNG is a match... http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=115253
This might be a rare coin. It's Augustus. What you have on the obverse is the emperor with victory behind the bust, adjusting the laurel wreath. I...
This is fabulous!
I made a joke earlier about memorizing all the varieties, but it would be enough work to memorize all the mint mark symbols. That's clearly the...
I really like these provincial busts where the hair is sometimes stylized as a bunch of large dots.
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