Since I have to bid against them for the ones I want.
I dunno about this anymore. Now there just may be too many getting into Ancients!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The problem with moderns, while they are NOT very interesting, they are not really collections, just accumulations.
I believe there is room for us all - just stay away from the Republican issues!
I have this one from Antioch [ATTACH] PHILIP I AE30 OBVERSE: AVTOK K M IOVLI FILIPPOC CEB, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right REVERSE:...
Ditto
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This is another I was watching on Ebay, but I did not bid on it. I had too many I was watching that day. Congratulations. BTW, I won't let you...
While not the same issue, this is a young Marcus Aurelius: [ATTACH] MARCUS AURELIUS AE Sestertius OBVERSE: AVRELIVS CAESAR AVG PII F COS, bare...
Nice set ken. I'm partial to the Republican issue, but your Philip is quite nice as well.
Well, if I thought this coin had any potential for identification I would tell you there are ways to clean and ways not to clean. Sanding is one...
BTW, next time try showing both sides of any given coin. Many times one side will give a clue to the other.
Welcome Joey, but that coin is a bit too far gone.
Believe it or not, but I bid on another coin like this just tonight, but was out-sniped. Oh, it wasn't near this nice, but nice enough for me....
I forgot??????
That makes two of us. That is a great first coin IMHO. Claudius coins provide some interesting reverses. Many of us here have similar coins as...
That sure is a beauty. Love the portrait.
The obverse looks very much like iamtiberius' third coin.
I think I would call these "archaic", but what do I know, eh? [ATTACH] ACHAEMENID EMPIRE AR Siglos OBVERSE: Persian king or hero in...
Well, if this one is fake it fools me. I can see what appears to be tooling as identified by iamtiberius, but to me it's not that obvious or...
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