Indeed. You could've shown those "barbarous" celators a thing or two! (*And hey, if you popped a few good hallucinogens, you might have even...
It is also possible I wasn't reading closely enough. :rolleyes: I do have other interests but focus on coins exclusively, so as not to dilute...
I have one watchlisted but I fear I will be unable to bid, for reasons of budgetary caution, and boring realities like "my old jalopy car has to...
I had some of the family, but never Nigrinian. You've made me want one. Carus [IMG] Numerian [IMG] Carinus [IMG]
If you engraved the mold from scratch with nothing more than a screwdriver, I am still very impressed with the results!
I love that you're preserving the findspot data.
One I got from FORVM years back, because I thought the countermark looked cool. Tarsos, Cilicia, c. 164 - 37 B.C. [IMG]
Wow. Nice!
Ditto
I can agree with AU58 PL, now that you mention it. Didn't occur to me to include that designation with my original AU58 guess. Nice coin. Dunno...
I would think you could get them reholdered in individual slabs. Might cost you three reholdering fees for three new holders. You would of...
I think there's definitely something to this, and that there could indeed be a "sweet spot" in that $100-300 range of which you speak. Others...
This one was gold, and not tiny, but holed in antiquity. It also came with a famous pedigree. It cost me $350-ish or thereabouts, back in 2003...
For some idea of scale, here are the slab shots on the three I just posted, demonstrating that... well... they're not very big. [IMG] [IMG]...
Did someone mention Norman Sicily? :) ($348.25 USD after slab fees.) [IMG]
This one is technically electrum rather than gold, and it's tiny, but it's a miniature marvel, in my opinion. My total investment including slab...
There have been counterfeit coins for as long as there have been coins. Some things never change. Human nature, for example.
Yep. I concur. Damaged. The phantom "fifth digit" does look unusual at first glance- and I can see why you'd think you might have something...
Hard to judge whether that's had an old cleaning or not, based on those photos. May be "market acceptable" in any case.
Oh. Ha! I see what you did, there. Took me a sec to "get" it. In this case, they're gonna burn it out, with laser beams. (Second round of...
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