Historia Augusta is a bit of an ancient tabloid but includes a line which I believe makes sestertii the most appropriate coins of Lucius Verus....
INDO-SCYTHIAN: Spalyrises, c65-40 BC, AE square ½ unit king on horse / Herakles on rock, Kandahar mint [ATTACH] Next: any dotted border other...
I am in 100% agreement with Ras here. Before I bought my first digital camera in 2000 (a Nikon 990) I took photos of all my coins and made tiny,...
Would I do something like that? You bet I would. So far we have seen two coins that may or may not be mine and both are similar to other coins in...
You do have one thing right. Your coin is worth less than a dollar. The MCM coin is nicer than most so worth about 50-100 times as much as...
[ATTACH] I don't know enough about the styles of these to tell John from Manuel II when there is no legend. I would have guessed Manual but I...
Yes but some pairing do not play as nicely. Pure carbon can be a diamond and oxygen is needed to support life. Combine them into Carbon monoxide...
another mouse Antigonos Monophthalmos 320-301 BC AR drachm types of Alexander [ATTACH] Next: a smaller than horse mammal used as the major type...
People who have been collecting for years and have a decent collection of ancient coins in other metals do not have to ask amateurs on Coin Talk...
BABYLON 311-280 B.C. FO DRACHM BAAL STD. LEFT LION L. & ANCHOR 3.60g 11H FOURREE-SCATTERED CORE EXP.ON OBV &...
You might try showing them a volume of the British Museum catalog or something published by a school they have heard of (Cambridge?).
"Too long" is usually defined in the rules posted for the sale hat must be agreed to by participants. This can be anywhere from zero (no returns)...
The question is whether or not someone knew the coin was a BD bomb just waiting to go off. Let's say I have a coin with BD and soak it in DW and...
The call to show Domitian comes up here more often than I have been buying new coins of his so I tend to post the same old ones (my best). This...
I can not speak for others but the reason I don't participate in this thread very much is laziness. I have a photo of each coin in my collection....
This is Emmett 2567 but the legend quoted is 2566 which has a Nike in place of the thunderbolt. Either works for the Zeus so: Next: Aphrodite...
I also would be surprised if they took it back given the time elapsed and the way auction rules tend to work. It is a shame that the coin has to...
I got this worn Hadrian / Victory quinarius in a Robinson sale decades ago. It is my only Imperial quinarius other than an Allectus like SteveX6...
Should we worry we won't remember what coin we sent? I'm glad we can't play. It keeps us from being embarrassed we missed our own! When this is...
I don't know if this is the spotted sleeper. I believe it is one of the common ones with gold inlay often missing on lesser examples like mine....
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