Every one a winner but that Nerva is exceptional! Congratulations.
[ATTACH] We will all have different opinions on how we would spend $480. Your proposed coin is beautiful and unworn. I find the centering of...
I see two major reasons to have a coin certified. Does one apply tp you? 1. You do not trust the person you bought the coin from and want to find...
When we moved to our current house in 2003, I started recording all the living things I found but stopped reshooting the same species when I...
I want to see the Caligula if you go this route. There are bronzes attributed to his time with several ???? but no portrait coins of silver that...
All five are also available as Provincials. Nero AE15 Magnesia ad Sipylum / head of Senate [ATTACH] Galba Alexandria tetradrachm / Roma head...
The Julia Domna to match: [ATTACH] Next: A coin of an Empress of Rome that was not from the mint at Rome
Next coin Septimius Yours is better grade but mine is 'better' because it belonged to Bickford Smith and is the coin shown as #3 on his plate....
I'll never have a Constantine XI but my John VIII (next to last Byzantine Emperor) is similar in type but not nearly as crude, rare or expensive....
If you get a really hard case Roman numeral freak, show them the Tiberius with 38 as XXXIIX. I really wanted one of those but mine of the type is...
Severus Alexander Alexandria tetradrachm (struck at Rome for use at Alexandria) [ATTACH] Next: Another Alexandria coin of a 'Severus'
While not easy to prove, it is an idea that seems reasonable. I am not fully comfortable identifying the coins of this period to mint and shuffled...
In cars, they call that a lease. You have to return it in their definition of good shape. Software for computers is now moving toward the same...
My pet peeve is people of today, PhD's and first year Latin students, who judge each other on matters of pronunciation as if they actually knew...
The style seems strange to me. Is this normal Rome of the first period? This is not my area of study.
Plaster casts?
In recent years there seems to have been a trend for new collectors being too good to buy common coins. They start by spending big money on...
Thanks. I am hesitant to spend more on another book on Republicans. I'm still smarting from buying Banti which has poor plates by my standards...
I don't know how many coins you have but I recommend and do make a practice of touching each of mine once a year to confirm they exist (not lost...
I'd prefer to see more from the die before declaring the extra I a letter rather than a dot or damage. My ArabAdq is 'messy' in that region and...
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