What I like most is his prices realized are listed including the high bid as well as the selling price. That eases my angst on the lots where I...
The Hendin book is easily available used BUT only in the older editions. Yes, the latest one is far better but I will not be buying it because my...
I believe you have seen it. I have shown mine several times but rather than calling that stroke an I I read it as a C over V error correction....
I believe most common re soldiers' boots. Constantius II AE2 Constantinople [ATTACH] More scarce are Persian kings with feet on flan. [ATTACH]
Can it place a call or only receive? The way I see it, our needs don't change but we become more skilled at recognizing the difference between...
Mine are not as nice as Martins but match in the hand to head on the sword type variation. I agree on the gamma for I also. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
Unlike Finn, I am not tempted to sell my square AE hemiobol (7.97g) of Eukratides for half or double what I paid. I paid too much but nothing...
I believe it would be a service to the CT group as a whole if one of our members who has kept up with current terminology would post an...
Commodus tetradrachm of Alexandria LKZ year 27 [ATTACH]
Overall, the best of these are the Philip Zeugma issues but there are others . Mine is Antoninus Pius. It is also a die clash which explains my...
Let's be clear about this. The vast majority of books on ancient coins (or anything, for that matter) are outdated to some degree. Our job as...
This is the first thing beginners need to learn about ancients. You will never find a book that covers the whole subject. Books that cover a...
Trajan had a variety on this general theme. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I find it interesting that you are more likely to find the fancier bust obverses on coins of the junior rulers than on the senior. Caracalla...
Viminacium also made the smaller radiates for Philip. [ATTACH]
We always point out that every die was an individual creation but when the die cutter is more than a little weak in Latin, all bets are off what...
I don't read the obverse legend as given.
I have had my Romulus for 25 years now and understand it no better than when I bought it. A recess has been carved all around the portrait except...
Does this huge date span mean fish were cast over a long period with so little change that we, today, can not tell the difference or that we do...
Tetradrachms (possibly a small trace of silver but mostly copper) of Alexandria of Galerius and Carinus - I can never understand how people today...
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