Lovely coin, Race - and I love that it has some very light deposits/toning. I realize ancient silver has to be cleaned, but I prefer the look of...
Blech.........
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I'm sorry to hear that! But as they say, once burned, twice shy. Shy is not a bad approach when it comes to collecting expensive coins.
Ah. I missed that part. Well, I'm not one to point fingers. I've made a handful of collecting decisions that I now consider mistakes.
This thread is an example of an inexperienced collector asking for advice, and saving himself the trouble of learning the hard way. I wish more...
This coin of Pontos, however, pleases me. [ATTACH]
I wasn't at all happy with the old image of the coin I just posted, so I took it out and re-shot it. I'm still not happy, but that has more to do...
The closest I come to a portrait is this coin, Mithridates in the guise of Perseus - which (let's be honest) is just Perseus... Amisos, Pontos,...
I'll simply reiterate what I said to you in PM about how much I like this coin. Some of us have Pontic issues of Mithridates VI, but this is the...
Very nice coin!
That one is pretty good, actually - centered on both sides. These minute bronzes of Aretas IV come in a seemingly endless number of varieties, but...
AD 364-367 for Val I. Purchasing power I don't know. Probably not much - I think of these as Roman pennies.
Nice!
When I first started selling, I auctioned off a few cheap items at low starting bids, and lost a little money. But I got a handful of positive...
I have a very-nicely detailed example of this type, but the patina is so odd it's difficult to image... [ATTACH]
It's a very nice example of the type.
If we want to expand to the large folles of the Tetrarchy, I also have this Constantius I - one of the first ancients I bought. There's that long,...
The differences in these busts mostly reflect the styles of particular mints. I can usually spot an Antioch coin just by the bust. Lugdunum and...
I think I read ΠAT on the right coin, part of the word Philopater, making it Antiochos IX.
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