I really would like to know how/why we have the minor variations if the type was a copy of the statue represented by the Louvre example. My Geta...
I would support a grading system for fakes. Grade A might fool real professionals. Grade B might fool some dealers an collectors like me. Grade...
It is just plain wrong to lump all the coins in slabs in one group. There are TPG's that do a good job and offer an opinion worth paying for....
That is a beautiful coin. For those without such wonderfully high grade coins, it might be good to warn that the numeral on the amphora is the...
I have enjoyed mine since I got it in 2000 from Jonathan Kern. There is just something special about swearing an oath on a pig that makes this a...
General rule: There are many things people do to coins that they should not but that, once done, only get worse when we try to cover up what was...
I have a suggestion: Do not buy from someone who claims to know everything; he is a liar. Do not buy from someone that claims to know nothing;...
https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=17343 These were year dated (196 of their era) and had other mint symbols I do not understand...
That is an exceptional example of the diaphanous drapery for an as. It is easier to find that on sestertii. Pick some young collector who will...
I probably would not buy this coin today but thought it was interesting at that time. Commodus / Isis and Serapis, Flaviopolis retaining important...
No thread on Sauroktonos will escape my posting of my favorite coin of the type even though Pat used it in her article. Pat Lawrence was a...
Claudius II, Antioch [ATTACH] Most of the later Thracian kings were a mite weird looking and so were the Roman emperors on their coins. This is...
"Chalcos" gets my vote. We used to say, "That and a nickel will get you a cup of coffee." That number has changed.
Thanks. I can't figure out why I failed to find it when I searched. I typed septimius saecvlo which turned up a dupondius but no sestertius....
The above pretty well sums up my feelings on the matter. I have known several golfers but none that spent that little on fees, equipment,...
Insurance will not protect you from the coins being seized by customs if you are not allowed to export the items from your country.
I am not aware of Banti online. The books are hard enough to find. I only have the Septimius volume (IV-1). My opinion/guess is that...
There are a hundred different fakes of this popular coin. While a casting seam is a bad sign, the lack of one is no reassurance since there are...
Relatively few coins of Clodius Albinus are dated to 193. He became COS II in 194 so a 193 needs to be dated just COS. [ATTACH] Next: a die...
Underrated is a matter of opinion. I believe Rome would have been better off had Pertinax lived to rule but we really do not know if Septimius...
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