Yes, I prefer to call it an alloy mark to avoid confusion that some have calling the XXI a denomination or relation like 21 of these make...
Julia Domna / Smyrna[ATTACH] Next: dekastyle temple
Terence Cheesman illustrated his wonderful post with two exceptional Provincial coins but, since he mentioned the fact that they can be crude,...
Gallienus [ATTACH] Next: a Roman coin with an animal in exergue
I don't see this as a problem but recognition that technology changes the way we do things. I love my old catalogs but I would much rather have...
Technically, as I understand the matter, a double or triple strike involves a single die pair while coins struck using previous coins as blanks...
I once considered making a clip file to lighten the load of mostly worthless catalogs but with my luck the two coins I liked were back to back on...
It was a popular type, wasn't it? Note the fingers are always straight not gripping the other hand. Vitellius [ATTACH] Vespasian...
Has it been so long that we have forgotten who was responsible for that?
No, your name as a past buyer of thousands of high dollar coins is a valuable item. Don't it get to you and continue filling the rubbish bin or...
Several of us have discovered that selling coins we have outgrown is difficult but here we have further proof that giving them away may be just as...
My personal record was four years between noticing a coin was missing and finding. Best wishes.
I like errors including doublestrikes but like them more when they get really weird. For example a flipover doublestrike show obverse and reverse...
The question here was why the coins look so different. Severus Alexander issued coins for several years during which time he grew from a young...
On this anonymous pagan reverse, Apollo show that his patera has liguid. [ATTACH] Severus II / Genius with drippy patera [ATTACH] Where is...
Septimius Severus over tripod flame [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] My Vespasian is a year three. Is there a significance to the use of the line over the numeral when attributing the mint place? Is the...
Wikipedia says: In the other hand Tranquillitas holds some sort of animal in her outstretched hand. Most experts believe to be a Roman Dragon...
How do you tell the later Augustus from the early ones? This is a Tiberius. [ATTACH]
My example has the c/m TIBCAF. I enjoy the way they extended the rectangle to accommodate the I. [ATTACH]
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