How large an area is sampled by XRF? It strikes me that the results from several small areas on a piece like this could be different and there is...
I might suggest that some of our number will need to post something unlike what we always post. Those who always post gold might have a bronze...
Die duplicate? I bought this one from the same seller that Pat got her first one from. I always preferred the grasping type over the darting or...
Are we answering our own posts now? There is a perfectly good Typhon on a Republican denarius but expecting someone who owns one to reply in 4...
These websites are the future of numismatics and much better than paper and ink books on the subjects since they can be updated easily and cost us...
Similar [ATTACH] There is also a smaller AE12 bronze but the obverse style suffers. [ATTACH] While it lacks many finer points, I have always...
Very good work! The AE are especially well done.
It can be said that I am no fun but I am particularly opposed to threads where the cut and paste text is larger than the original material. I am...
I hope they reappear. This will be a great post when they do.
There are wax like products like RenWax that might do what you want but for the purpose of making a ruined coin, never to be removed from the...
This one follows my observation that we see these with 'better' types than the 'run of the mill' asses. I could see the mint of necessity...
Do you have a weight on the Plautilla? Asses of this period come in two versions. The normal ones can weigh twice the ones called 'Cast in...
I have trouble accepting the casts of very rare coins when they are so much more common than casts of common types. I have two from the same...
My best example of the rare/common coin is the Septimius Severus / INVICTO IMP type which is very common from the 'Emesa' mint. There are several...
I believe this is my rarest official FH: Constantius Gallus, Amiens [ATTACH] This is second? Constantius Gallus, Trier - This coin is 25mm in...
If I were a Judaean merchant in 30 AD and a Roman soldier came to my shop to buy something with a denarius, the last thing that would cross my...
Macrinus Nikomedea DIC (2nd) Neocorate [ATTACH] Next: one coin; two temples
I don't know 'Vespa' but do find interest in a coin very similar to the Vespasian dupondius Andres2 posted. The coins were among the last...
The NGC essays are illustrated with photos from CNG auctions. CNG has been wonderful for years by providing high quality coin photos for...
Nero dupondius / Securitas [ATTACH] Next: a very two toned coin with patina worn through to the metal
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