I've wanted to collect one of these for a while, but I guess they're quite scarce - I've only seen a handful for sale and all of them had very...
I've been slogging my way through the historical analysis at the beginning of RIC VI and I came across this interesting footnote, apropos to this...
I think you're right. It's why I'm drawn to ancients. I particularly like your Bay Bridge - it's as if the fog was lingering in the bay.
You guys sure do have some crappy coins. And yet, there's something curiously compelling and attractive about them.
Doug, I recently bought one of these VRBS ROMA/VOT mules, and the pretty coin won out over the weak mint mark. I can't quite make it out:...
That's a beautiful coin, whatever the grade.
You have a great eye, Volante. Those are marvelous coins.
Carnival in Rio? It's possible, but I haven't been there in 15 years. Is it me, or do all the Brazilians look like Dennis Rodman??
Value is difficult to assess when it comes to ancients. If I was collecting FH's by mint mark or looking for errors, like coins struck on...
Show us your tets, TIF!
I think it's a very attractive coin, personally. Is the size of the coin unusual for the series though? It seems uncharacteristically small, but I...
I'm 50, and my kids like to remind me that that's HALF A CENTURY. :mad:
Best wishes for your continued health!
Welcome to the forum, Pocket Change 50!
It's a thorny business. Ras unravels it pretty well in ERIC so I'll just quote him... "On the whole, RIC‘s treatment of the pre-reform coinage...
Perhaps it's a coin with a misprint. The obverse legend GAL VAL MAXIMINVS NOB C exists on the coins of Maximinus, as does that particular...
Hercules gets all the righteous babes.
I agree. Rent at vcoins is about $80 per month if I remember correctly - I looked into it a few months ago. Every dealer has overhead. Some...
I know nothing about these coins, but if it's for real, I think you win cherrypick of the year!
And a Vitellius denarius no less, not just some common corroded LRB...
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