On his website, @dougsmit has an article about the buying power of ancient coins :).
Nice one, Mat!
Doug, is your coin a so-called hemilitron, weighing 20-ish grams? Perhaps there are two more unseen dots for a total of six?
old images; needs a reshoot. [IMG] AE22, 7.5 gm. The nomenclature for Akragas denominations is confusing. I don't know if this coin has only two...
I put Ren Wax on a couple of bronze coins after empiric treatment with VerdiCare. I was surprised that there was no sheen. Maybe it has to be...
Wow, what a great lot! I love each of the newest coins shown.
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Outstanding coins and succinct writeup! At the moment, this is my only Carthaginian coin, issued between the 2nd and 3rd wars. [IMG] ZEUGITANA,...
I have a few coins of indisputably fine style (Syracuse tetradrachm, for instance) but there are some which are far less assuming yet very...
Poor Valerian I. Depending on who you read, upon capture by Shapur I, Valerian was: A. Killed by Shapur; stuffed with straw and kept as a...
The center coin's obverse is copied from a very expensive tetradrachm of Katane, Sicily. I'm not sure which coin the reverse is supposed to...
The Trajan is very nice :)
Ardatirion pointed out that it is one of NGC's older slabs. Maybe images weren't routine at that time.
I've been wondering if all those MOUs are having an effect. My interest in Roman Egyptian coins has grown and it seems like the prices are now...
Ardy, I don't think many of us here own slabs, so we aren't in touch with the history and styles. :D
Me too! I'm frustrated that the slab doesn't indicate the reverse type. I looked up the cert number and even searched for other slabbed examples...
No offense intended by any of this, HAB. We often go off on tangents so if our continued dialog isn't relevant to you, don't sweat it :). You...
I stopped watching prior to the Romans and didn't have any of those on my watch list (not that I was bidding on any...). There were twelve unsold...
I don't think that phoenix reverse was issued for Constantine I. Another thing I dislike about NGC's slabs... scant information. There's room...
I'm guessing it's a campgate. Edited: or what Medoraman and JA said :D NGC's cert lookup doesn't show images for the many of this specific coin...
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