On this we agree. The problem is that sharing our preferences can lead to other people joining the hunt. I started looking for Eastern denarii...
I had a Balbinus but sold it in 1974. He has not worked his way back due to hard competition. I never owned a Gordian I or II either. We all...
You are absolutely correct. Ancients are too much for one normal human head to contain. That is why we flock together here and help each other...
I see no doubt about the ID and see nothing that would improve the legibility. I would not apply anything that would obscure the detail that is...
Those new to the question need to know that recently a large number of the general type of the OP coin have come to market. They vary massively...
If requiring the person to have ruled the entire empire is your requirement then there are only about half of the names left on the list after...
Somewhere I got the idea that 12 1/2 referred to Licinius revaluing the coinage at half of the previous number of 25 denarii of account at the...
My first thought is that this might be a contemporary copy from the East rather than from Athens itself. I have one in this class that I have...
These jars come with a foam insert that is soft and easily compresses but hold the item in place as you placed it. If the item is thick, you can...
That is the prize. Athletic contests used baskets, pots etc. before there were ribbons, medals or plastic trophies. I have a page....
I keep all my Greek coins smaller than 10mm in plastic tubs meant for rock specimens rather than paper envelopes I use for the rest. This is...
At first I thought we might just add up all the final numbers in RIC and add a few thousand for those not in RIC but some of us care for officinae...
A few Julia Domnas I like: Alexandria tetradrachm year 4 [ATTACH] Alexandria denarius BONI EVENTVS [ATTACH] denarius of Syrian mint 'Emesa'...
Yes, but the worst ones are the ones you know deep down are bad but you so very much want to be good that you can't accept it. In this case the...
This is a very special coin. Congratulations and thank you for sharing it. The common coin of Sidon and the only one I have is the 1/8 shekel...
medoraman brings up a point. We all differ on what constitutes a difference. By some standards a collection has room for a hundred different...
Mine is 0.16g and 5mm but I show it with the anchor the other way up in recognition of the barely visiable A in the left field. It is not much of...
The other question is how long it will be there. If the irridescence is a produck of a micro-thin layer of toning, continued action will go gray...
This would only be the case if only one floor bidder wanted the lot. I would prefer sale either be floor or mail but not combinations of both....
It takes a while for collectors new to ancients to understand all the differences in coins caused by dies being individually cut rather than...
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