I like the way they look together. They match in color grade and surface condition.
As so often the case my top three so far are coins that would interest few here. Pescennius Niger / Minerva with owl (I paid extra or tolerated...
I recently bought a second one of these coins hoping to upgrade the Draco look but it is hard to say which coin is the upgrade overall and which...
I almost agree but I have a lot more trouble getting over actual rarity as opposed to high demand popularity. I see three factors of note: 1....
This is one big point. In my specialty, I have few coins that were unknown for a while, then one other for a while, then two, then...
Grading is always an opinion but I would not crack that one. If you don't like it as is, sell it to someone who looks at the label rather than...
While I found the coins appealing enough to buy a few, I have not been convinced of the ID's I have on them to the point I can post them without...
I maintain that the pinning of blame on Septimius overlooks what happened to the denarius in the final years of Commodus (or is it just the ones...
I believe this is the name of the game we play. Further, I suspect many of us have looked at one or more of the coins posted here as 'cherries'...
Sorry, I thought I did. Oops. [ATTACH]
Patina and bronze disease gone: Titus sestertius Spes [ATTACH] Next: Patina free red copper
My favorite class of imitatives are those that were not copied or miscopied directly from a regular mint original. For example this Septimius...
Septimius and Julia Domna AE assarion Nikopolis [ATTACH] Next: husband and wife on opposite sides of the same coin
My favorite coin for this thread is my Zenobia tetradrachm of Alexandria tooled from an as of either Vespasian or Titus (my guess). Both the...
My Volusian sestertius suffers from poor surface texture. I don't think his AE circulated much. You see more corroded ones than worn. [ATTACH]...
This is simple. Slabs are aimed at new collectors making the move from modern coins where AU is faulty and VF is shameful. If a dealer has 100...
I only record minimum diameter when it is at last 2mm less than the maximum. I am considering making a measuring scale that would allow placing...
Since computers like to alphabetize things, I suggest making things easy on them. Rather than starting with 1, start with R001001.0000 so at a...
Separate names with a comma.
