Wonderful coin!
That would have been a positively awful coin to lose in the mail. I'm glad it arrived!
So, speaking of the Constans mint set, I went through RIC and discovered the coins are recorded for 13 mints. I don't know why it couldn't have...
Safe and pleasant travels to you, Arturo!
I won't give up on Baltimore. I just need to make safer arrangements. Perhaps someday we'll meet at the show.
Yes, of course. I went the wrong direction.
Well, I went to the Baltimore show a few months back and was unnerved by having to walk through the parking garage with a pocketful of expensive...
That would be a rare millidrachm.
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I think some are, some aren't. The site owner is Daniel Wolf, and he posts frequently at FORVM. He's very helpful if you get stuck on an...
Check out PtolemAE Project for everything you ever wanted to know about Ptolemaic bronzes. Also check out this page for fascinating information...
One denomination larger than red spork's... Ptolemy III Eurgetes, 246-221 BC AE16: 2.77g, 12h; Tyre mint, Club series Obv.: Diademed bust of...
Quite frankly, at this point I'd feel safer going to Israel than Baltimore.
These are excellent. Most everyone aims for the great big coins. Finding the small denominations as centered, well-struck, and well-preserved as...
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Excellent choices jwt ;) You've got to be careful buying the larger denominations because many of them are tooled. Despite the size of the flans,...
The rarest of these issues comes from Aquileia. There is one available now, but I'm not prepared to drop $200 on it. I'll wait and see if I can...
I experimented with several different colors as backgrounds and finally settled on black, simply because black sucks up the surrounding colors on...
I spent a few hours with my two coins of Julian II, one as Caesar, one as Augustus - new pics and double-checking dimensions and attributions....
I suppose if you had lots of coins to clean, you would want to use gloves. I've never bothered. Acetone evaporates so quickly I doubt much of it...
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