Quoting Warren's page: Whitting, P. D. Byzantine Coins. 1973. In the "World of Numismatics" series. Hardcover. 311 pages. Beautifully printed....
https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=169662 The largest I have seen in person is the dupondius shown above but there is a three as and, I...
That Numerian type was used by Aurelian, year 4. [ATTACH]
Since you mentioned the bucranium, we need to show one. With or without, it is a nice coin. [ATTACH] Mine was one of my first Republican coins -...
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Yes I did! I thought it was a way to move the many common coins that you get when a specialist collection with great rarities came with a...
I do not know the details but there have been a lot of these in sales lately. My first was from FSR in February 2018 but he had others in sale...
I have three playmates. First is an obol most distinctive for the pattern of reticulation. [ATTACH] Second is my favorite stater distinctive for...
That was a one and only occurrence that I did not understand at the time and am still mystified by. It was in the days when no one in their right...
1999 - You rarely know if a coin you get was found recently or just cleaned recently. I tend to think of old collection coins having better...
I particularly like the Geta for the young portrait. I always find it interesting when a new collector also adds a note as to what it was about...
If 10 good old days dollars were harder to come by that $10 today, these might be the good not-so-old days. The old story, sad but true, is,...
another son: Crispus from Nikomedia [ATTACH] In the interest of equal time rules, below are the father and son Licinius I and II (both from...
https://www.beastcoins.com/Topical/Architecture/Campgate.htm You might enjoy this page by Beast (once a favorite of mine before he went to work...
I liked the type of these enough that I didn't let the roughness stop me. Now AI see that rough is standard for the type. I wonder if our coins...
It appears that Perinthus, Thrace, was successful in both the Actaian (left) and Pythian (right) games the year this Septimius Severus AE30 was...
I'll have to see details before knowing how I feel about the Keystone concept. It might help the esales if it siphons off the lots that high end...
Most of us specialize; some of us specialize in several things. There are many who 'specialize' in high grade coins - they never saw a MS coin...
That is the story of my life. I had two of these. I bought the second because of the reverse style on Draco and tried unsuccessfully to sell the...
Those who care about anything I have to say on the subject have had many opportunities to read my opinions here before so there is no reason to...
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