My latest is this Valerian but I suspect most/all of the Gallienus sestertii were issued during the joint reign years so it is not completely out...
Magnifier choices depend on what you are looking for on the coins. 16x is awfully strong if you are looking at whole coins but OK if you like...
The reverses that show the emperor on a platform show the citizen holding out a fold of his clothing to catch the 'shower' of coins tossed in his...
It makes no difference what I think since I will never again travel (done with that phase) but I am sickened by museums that consider the proper...
I'd call yours a good one because you got the front part of the gator. These were not always struck with the same axis so you can get fronts,...
I don't know enough about modern coins but with ancients, there are a few types that are so commonly faked that any time we hear of a coin that...
https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1207635&partId=1&searchText=+george++forgery+denar...
I liked this Nero dupondius a lot more before I tried to capture it on a photo. I learned a lot about being green from this coin. [ATTACH]...
A couple Liberalitas coins I hope not everyone has: Septimius Severus dated IMP II and COS so a short period at the end of 193: [ATTACH] This...
Maybe the modern collectors should post more worthwhile posts worth liking???
If, and only if, you only wish to collect silver coins (no bronzes and no gold), I recommend the Seaby series Roman Silver Coins volumes I-IV....
I believe each of the basic reverses come with officina in field, left of the exergue code, in the middle of it and right of it. Each comes with...
Mixing of reverses on unofficial coins of this period is not at all unusual both with fourree and solid coins. The doubing on reverse right...
The oddball in the set is this officina three with an A in place of the lambda. [ATTACH]
I do not consider it certain but tend to TRP III. Did you see this one? $8k + extras https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=96987
Of all Caligula coins, mst common are the Vesta asses. They are so commonly the only coin of this emperor in a collection that there is a stigma...
I read this request as wanting only electrum coins and I have none from the early Greek period. I have seen some I like but CNG has scared me off...
This is a very good point that new collectors might learn. The word 'rare' is much abused. If there are a hundred examples and a thousand people...
I have issues with this concept. To me, the only question here is whether the item in question existed in a time before, lets say, 300 AD and was...
As I recall the story (someone look it up to check as you should anything you read): When Hadrian died, the Senate resisted deifying him but...
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