The Baltimore show yesterday wore me out (partly due to the 3 hour ride each way on the club charter bus). The only coin I have photographed of...
This was a perfectly good sestertius of Antoninus Pius but that greedy Postumus decided to up its worth to a double sestertius by overstriking it...
We see several postings of really interesting coins of Roman Alexandria and series from some other cities of note but Provincial coins were made...
Completing my pickups from the Richmond show are three lesser coins. Oldest is a 138 BC Republican with Roma and the common reverse of the...
The other coin from today's show that came with a surprise was this Philippopolis AE28 of Septimius Severus with Hercules reverse. I also found...
Today I went to the small show in Richmond VA which produced five new coins all from one dealer. Of course, both dealers there were at...
...turns out to be a big one compared to its peers. At 2.06g and 14mm this dichalkon of Trajan has a wide spread flan with a lot of evidence on...
Before I went to the coin show I won a Postumus billon antonianus on eBay for $8.55 postpaid. I consider that a fair price and suggest you get...
Flavia Philadelphia, Lydia, that is. There are millions of Roman Provincial coins and, frankly, I am bored by 90% of them. Of the 10%, at least...
I made the mistake of telling Steve how many coins I bought at the Fredericksburg show so now I have to show the also ran items. I can take the...
The Fredericksburg show also brought two Republicans that I did not have previously and a Julia Domna that struck me as odd (who will tell me why?...
From the Fredericksburg show came two very ordinary grade coins with slightly unusual legends referring to the fact that the emperors really...
At Fredericksburg I bought coins from three different dealers. The Gordian tet was from an old friend but whose coins are usually above me....
The lowest priced coin I got at the Fredericksburg show was a wire kopeck of Peter I of Russia. Oddly, within a week before I won another on eBay...
Yesterday's coin show provided me with 17 new items of which half will be of interest to no one (so why will I show them???). I hope some will...
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/picked-up-my-first-ancient-gordian-iii-antoninianus.250298/#post-1977342 I recently posted as a trick my one and...
Today, two separate dealers conspired to fill my mailbox each by sending a coin from opposing sides c. 351 AD. When Constantius II appointed his...
I mentioned earlier giving a 15 minute talk on ancients for people who collect modern at a local club. I survived but am glad its over....
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I have been asked to give a 15 minute illustrated talk on ancients to a local coin club followed by a question session limited to another 15...
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