Mine, under Titus, is not all that 'comely' whether or not it is common. [ATTACH] I have always been fond of my Titus sestertius ex. Ed Waddell...
Agree. This is the matching Galerius. [ATTACH]
There are enough fourrees of the civil war period that I believe they were part of the official unofficial mints. Having one in any shape is an...
Mine weighs 5g and is silver. My first thought was that the coin was just heavily oxidized and might show silver if cut on the edge but the low...
Trust Frank. When he says a coin is ugly, the coin is ugly. When he says a coin is pretty, the coin is pretty. You make a mistake when you...
Around the turn of the new millennium, I was spending a lot of time talking to Victor Failmezger who was in the process of writing his book on...
This was one of my first Byzantine coins. I was mostly into denarii before 1989 when I got this Antioch follis from Ken Dorney. [ATTACH] In...
Thank you. That is exactly how I feel about European auctions. I don't collect terribly expensive coins so sometimes it seems that the post...
If I accomplish nothing else in life, may I go down as a teacher not to count your chickens before they are hatched (or delivered by USPS?).
http://www.fsrcoin.com/112.htm Prices Realized are up for the Robinson sale yesterday. My results will follow when the Post Office delivers....
If it did not have that dark place on the face, it might be a $100k coin but, in this bracket, coins need to be a bit more perfect. It makes no...
What I see here is a common photo problem resulting from taking a photo with daylight balance lights but somewhere in the room there was a table...
Commodus Alexandria [ATTACH] Septimius Severus Philippopolis [ATTACH] I am unaware of many war action coin types. Obviously there are the Falling...
My favorite Maxentius type shows the above Dioscuri type with a wolf/twins added under the horses. Also Ostia mint: [ATTACH]
Autonomous AE 20 1st century BC? two upright goats confronting surrounded by city name in several pieces [ATTACH] Next: two or more of the same...
Mine lacks the delta epsilon on the reverse but is otherwise similar. I do not know the intended difference between the two or why a few were...
I am of the opinion that each die was often touched by several workers. One did letters; one did a rough-in of the portrait; one (a master) did...
If we start with the theory that all ancient coins have been cleaned to some degree, we do not need to be concerned with how many times but with...
When someone from the modern coin hobby drops in on the ancient section and bemoans a hole in a 'coin' with thousands of easy to find replacements...
Many of my Elymais coins came as groups which tended to be from a rather short period of time but still have a lot of variation. They are fun...
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