"Contemporary" as in made in the age of the official coin :). Ancient counterfeit.
You may still find a few identifiable keepers. My first foray into ancients was with uncleaned coins. I have "before" pictures in this post. I...
As you've probably seen in Emmett's introductory pages, he has the following to say about Nike flying vs. advancing (p. xviii): The Milne (1933)...
Very attractive Isis coins! At the one coin show I've attended I felt handicapped regarding prices. Cell signal and wifi were spotty. Usually I...
A couple of years ago and you haven't acquired more?! C'mon man, join the fun :D
Bronze coins of Carthage often of a quality only a mother could love :D. All of the above examples, and the one below, are beautiful to me :)....
NGC's bulk grading is $20 and I wonder if Heritages gets even better rates in exchange for pushing NGC slabs. HA's buyer's premium is 17.5% but...
What a fantastic example! Look at that huge flan! I'm also more interested in these smaller Republicans type due to recent posts by...
Perfect description! That Vindex is stunning. [ATTACH] At the moment I only have one Galba, a rather "experienced" tetradrachm from...
Bing was the person who finally convinced me to change the DNS settings. Usually, when I muck around with any computer settings everything ends...
That really is a beautiful work of art. I feel the same way about medals but haven't pursued any, although there are several on my Vcoins wish...
I suspect that is from a die break + wear, because the horizontal limb of the T is otherwise in line with the rest of the legend. Martin-- what...
It's not down. I used to have that problem frequently but it was fixed by changing the DNS settings on my computer. At first I wasn't happy...
Oh, you're right. I thought I saw a horn on that coin but I guess it is just hair curling behind the ear. 6107 it is then :)
Looking at RPC online, the description for 3.6107 and 3.6106 are the same. Your coin matches both descriptions and the images for 3.6106. For...
Barry Murphy lists 125 reverse varieties and there may be more.
Beautiful! A correction, though. The reverse is Serapis-Ammon, not Serapis Pantheos. In addition to the kalathos (modius) and horn of Ammon,...
Charles, please realize that it is difficult to proclaim authenticity for any given coin based on images alone... especially when those images are...
If I find a reasonably priced JC portrait I'm going to buy it :P.
I don't think additional cleaning will help this one much. The reverse figure is someone standing left, cornucopia cradled in one arm, the other...
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