Nice!! I have one, an early and hasty purchase for my Pink Floyd Animals set. One of these days I'll get a badly needed upgrade :) [IMG]
Not sure about Canada, but in the US I believe that's a felony :D
:D I love you guys, and CoinTalk :)
@Eric Kondratieff, thank you for that explanation. It was very educational!
An Alexandrian with Triptolemos in his biga of snakes, unfortunately not as sweet as @stevex6's obverse: [ATTACH] EGYPT, Alexandria. Antoninus...
Difference cities in Mysia, Topcat :). The OP is asking about coins of Pergamon, BMC numbers 205 and 216. The second coin you showed was struck...
:oops: Aww-- thanks, guys! I'm very behind in all aspects of my coinlife (the non-coinlife has been annoyingly intrusive) and sometimes miss...
Interesting article! Taking such a "fingerprint" of a valuable ancient object might indeed prove to be helpful should it every be stolen. It's...
I have a few Alexandrian reference books and Emmett's is my favorite, in terms of basic identification and attribution. To be fair though I...
Hmm. I signed up for that lamoneta to be able to view the coins under discussion (numismaticfakes cited a lamoneta discussion). Perhaps there...
Wow, @Theodosius -- what a fantastic Akragas!
Hmm. I had wondered how auction houses handle such a problem but hadn't read the TOS. It's somewhat understandable for them to do this, but I'd...
That explanation makes sense, including the last paragraph. As stated in my comment above (#44), if NGC slabs an ancient coin the odds of it...
An excellent question. The service appears to be most beneficial to collectors who don't wish to be bothered about having to expend energy to...
But NGC doesn't guarantee authenticity of the ancient coins they slab. If they slabbed it, there would still be a question mark, albeit a much...
I wondered about the lack of monogram behind her head but I think it is there (ligate AV). There is a die break (or casting flaw?) obscuring part...
Man oh man, Oki-- I was going to bomb that coin with a bid but was just too worn out after yesterday's events and couldn't deal with another...
Wow, that's a great example of the type!
Yes, but you didn't show all of the coins. In your original post, the first picture shows the reverse of four individual coins, each with jugate...
Yes please :)
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