Yes, that is his tactic. But buyer beware applies. For the listings I've checked there is no overt fraud going on. Just crazy prices. I'm...
By the way, that eBay seller is... interesting. Prices are sometimes 10x higher than comparable items recently sold elsewhere. Most of the coins...
One of these Aretas IV 2nd marriage commemoratives was in a small lot of Nabataeans recently purchased. Not in great shape (like that's a...
Here's my Rabbel II, from a handful of Nabataeans bought at auction a couple months back. [ATTACH]
CoinTalk is a fun place :)
I'm currently using a similar rationalization for justifying a future big bid. In the last week alone I've 'saved' thousands by deciding not to...
Keep trying, John. Smoking is so horribly bad for you. Nicotine gum may not be great but it poses fewer health risks than smoking. Give it a...
I quit smoking a couple of decades ago. Used nicotine gum. Can't get off the damn gum! I love that stuff.
I'd walk a mile for a Camel. :)
That's definitely one microcephalic Pegasus!
Not the clearest depiction, but Athena's helmet is decorated with a griffin on this Velia, Lucania didrachm. I love love love this coin :) [ATTACH]
Hey, I found another Pegasus. From the Stack's mixed lot. The coin envelope said "Corinth" but it appears to be an AE23 from Bruttium. [ATTACH]
Since the thread title is Pomegranates & Countermarks, here's a tetradrachm from Side, Pamphylia. There's a pomegranate on the reverse....
Good grief! I tried bidding on another one just now, the Stephen Album auction. Estimate was 100-120 USD. I dropped out after it got to a...
I would look displeased too if I had a bull on my head.
From Syracuse, Sicily, a hippocamp. [ATTACH]
A gorgon from Apollonia Pontika. [ATTACH]
From the same eBay score, the lot was a two-fer. A winged man-headed bull from somewhere in Caria. Looks rather like a mutant mosquito. [ATTACH]
There were a couple of very nice Klazomenai pigasus diobols in yesterday's CNG auction. I saw that at least one CT statesman was bidding. Did...
Collect, I really love that coin and have been actively looking for one of my own :) Here's an assortment of Klazomenai winged boars, Pigasus if...
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