Having an upper end of price in mind is good but even that won't be easy. I guess we could aim for $X in Y condition.
Good point.
Oh, yes! Thanks for posting that link and I'm sorry I left it out :)
Or Tiberius, or other Julio-Claudian provincial.
You can suggest whatever you want to suggest :). Submit Byzantine coins if you wish. When the dust settles hopefully a direction will be clear.
In a current thread about best books for beginning ancient coin collectors, many people lamented not having one great book. @AncientJoe had these...
I love the idea of a "200 Coins You Should Know" book and can see a whole series of similar titles. This idea really speaks to me and I wonder...
Experimenting is fun :) I have (had-- exchanged most for ancient coins) dozens of pounds of junk silver, US coins pulled out of circulation and...
Nice research, RC!
No, in most instances and for most ancients collectors it's not a kiss of death :).
Thanks! Looks like Beryl has mostly fizzled out. We could use some rain but a massive number of homes still have tarps for roofs, so I hope the...
I was just noticing that the Yellow Patina Company seems to have cut back on that practice, at least in the Roman Egypt section! I may be tempted...
My point is that sometimes ancient coins are clumsily cleaned or relieved of encrustations by hasty scratching with an object which leaves dents...
True, but part of flan preparation sometimes involved scraping the unstruck surfaces with a cheese grater (or ancient equivalent, apparently)....
There are a lot of those tourist trinkets down here (I live in the USVI). While the recent one-two hurricane punch certainly could have uncovered...
Like JWT, I think the Wayne Sayles books are a nice overview. This topic comes up with some frequency so here are some links you can review for...
Thanks, Oki, but Ivo started this thread :D. (At a glance I also see his avatar and think it's me!) Wonderful Caracalla! And stop it! Stop it...
Reason enough to add it to my wish list :D
I'm surprised the store owners aren't raising a fuss about the policy.
Hmm. The Roman section says "Early Republic" and shows a denarius of Marcus Aurelius and an as grave as the base coin. Not quite :D
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