You're not an idiot. All ancient coins are cleaned. Someone has to do it, and those of us that like collecting cleaned coins have to pay our...
The Ptolemaic bronzes have the distinction of portraying Cleopatra in a more lifelike manner than the denarii in my opinion. She looks too much...
How anyone would make a living being a vest pocket dealer is beyond me. I'd have to downsize to a cardboard box on skid row and eat roadkill. Vest...
Great coin but that's really the strangest background I've ever seen. Why would you use a background that actually covers up parts of the coin?...
Yup. That's what most of them look like.
I have one of the type Warren posted, but the style is different. If you look at Bostran coinage overall, you'll notice that some of the engravers...
Lol. This was supposed to make a 12-Caesars set easier.
Not that I know of. The brief run of Antiochian issues all have his bust.
I asked this question the last time we had an extended 12-Caesars discussion, but haven't had the time to research it since. It certainly sounds...
If you're a variety collector, you can have more than two. I believe there are 5 or 6 minor varieties than consist of differences as to how the...
Definitely a choice coin. As mentioned in another thread, if you want good centering on these types, you have to live with some clipped legends,...
I'm reserving opinion on the issues described "Cleopatra as Isis." I just don't know enough about the series. But the point is largely moot if...
We generally take "focus" to mean a concentration of coins from a particular period and culture, but one can exercise an intense intellectual and...
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Lovely indeed, nice find! The gold toning adds an attractive splash.
Wonderful coin! I'm not sure how you can be "not quite drawn to archaic coinage" when you've got something like the OP coin in your stable. It...
Honest wear huh...Ok, what is this? Vespasian? Pax seated? [ATTACH]
Fabulous double strike!
It's a Damascus mint coin, and a die match to this one sold by CNG.
Both great coins. I'm actually more impressed with the second, not because I like it better, but because it seems tougher to find the quadrantes...
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