If you opt for slabs only you will only have a fraction of available ancient coins to choose from unless you submit the coins for slabbing....
Thanks for the interesting writeup, and of course your coins are fantastic! I particularly like your choice of lifetime denarii. Someday I...
Well said!
You're helping them find coins. That's a public service, right? :D
Nice pickup, Randy! You're going to crack it out, I assume? Dating Ptolemaic coins-- or even assigning them to a particular emperor-- is...
Welcome! Don't be afraid :) While you're gaining the knowledge and experience needed to detect fakes, or at least when to know to proceed with...
By posting this question for a coin currently up for auction you'll only draw more attention to it, lowering your chances of winning and perhaps...
Wonderful!!
MacBook Pro 15", 2880 x 1800 I'm glad you're looking into this, Warren. It is extremely difficult to create a site that looks good and functions...
I am still so envious of this! What a catch!!
Thanks! :) Please don't. :D
Like Doug, I thought (perhaps wrongly?) that the early portraits of Domitian were likely more realistic and that vanity led to the less Bluto-y...
It's an ancient asterisk :D (a star)
Very cool!
Let me do some work on it to make it easier to digest. I'll remove the duplicates and add the auction house and year of sale.
Posting it to Forvm sounds like a good idea. A hasty check of ACsearch using search terms "bodenstedt 52" gave 650 hits, mostly other types, but...
There are at least four more reverse die matches to your coin in CNG group lots. I think you're okay :)
Looks like Bodenstedt gives die pairings and there are other dies of this type (youthful head / bearded head) and archives examples of multiple...
I'm not sure but would bet that they're both authentic and struck from the same dies. Is that unusual for these electrums? Probably not, but I...
I sympathize :D
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