The results are up for the latest Robinson sale and my quasi-multitudinous (3) winnings include one too high grade to be mine according to the TIF...
I always wanted an RXL but realized that I was lucky to have any Galba.
Maximinus II as FIL AVGG Thessalonika [ATTACH] Next: another FIL AVG(G) either not Maxminus II or not Thessalonkia
I apologize if my funning has turned off anyone. I'll stop commenting on the next coins but I do hope someone else makes an effort to keep this...
It was a good thread while it lasted.
I would keep them all as a reminder that you don't lose all of the time. Were it mine, I would soak the Axum in distilled water perhaps rubbing...
I have had two similar coins. The first I sold when I upgraded but my better one is more worn than yours. I do prefer more smooth surfaces....
I have found since the start that I am more likely to regret buying a coin I find boring whatever the grade than one I find interesting in some...
What is the current status of the datings in the Svoronos book? Is it close with a few revisions here and there or a complely outdated joke to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureus#/media/File:Aureus_Septimius_Severus-193-leg_XIIII_GMV.jpg Depending on your purposes for the article, you...
Ask your girlfriend if she has ever used an apochromatic lens. Relatively few photographers have. Sharpness is quite a different matter from...
Check weights on overstruck coins. Some were cut down (like my chainsaw edge piece) and overstruck to the new value/standard. Some were corn...
I'm glad that this shows GIII close to his wife (Tranquillina) and not his mom. In that year it was still OK to get close to your wife. I can't...
I consider these early Seleucid issues to be 'real' coins that circulated in the economy enough that we have a wide range of conditions in all...
I miss my younger days when I used cases/trays like these but when the number of coins grew to require more trays/cases than would fit in the bank...
Gallienus AE28 Tyre / Diomedes, murex shell to right. [ATTACH] Next: "Born to the Purple" (strict definition - born while the parent was emperor...
AAAAH but does he have one now? You will find out when all this is finished unless TIF was right and I have forgotten whether or not I own a coin...
Heraclius is joined by Heraclius Constantine [ATTACH] Even when the types are the same, the countermarked SCL coins can vary a lot from placement...
I understand the desire not to spend big money on a camera support. That is part of the reason I built mine from lumber left over from other...
While it is covered in a way in the Forvm link, some coins were made with very regular die axes while others were struck more or less at random....
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