I was once told that the level of scholarship a few hundred years ago identified the silver coins of Rhodes as showing Jesus wearing the crown of...
For those new to the subject, I have several pages on plated coins illustrated with images that should help distinguish them from solid coins....
I appreciate your better photos but still would like them better had you cropped out all that extra space so they appeared larger without us...
I suspect the die cutter had seen a Theodora revese and Urbs Roma obverse but may not have had them in hand at the moment. Perhaps he had one...
My personal experience with this type of Theodora is that most are on small, ragged flans and lose either the head of the reverse figure or the...
I don't ever claim to know what I am doing when I buy coins these days and I haven't been a beginner for long enough I should know better. Luck,...
Like Galerius?
Very wrong! Old silver means nothing. There are several fakes struck on common denarii. It is no big thing to sacrifice a VG Septimius Severus...
I see nothing in the photos sufficient to condemn the coin. Such calls are not safe to make even from good photos. Those are not good. You need...
Are these 'mixed' coins showing 'Milan' reverse dies also known with 'Milan obverses or just the types but not the same die? The proof of one...
I agree with Al completely except for one little detail. I would have placed quotation marks around "experts". A problem in the hobby as the...
I know nothing about shooting modern coins but the three bright bars on the shiny coin really bothers me. I might experiment with the same stand...
Mine came labelled as Bohemond III class B but I know nothing of the series. What distinguishes 'classes'? [ATTACH]
Does anyone else note what seems to be a greater than ordinary percentage of coins of this period are holed? It was a time of superstition when...
Many half crowns of Charles I including mine below at 12.9g were clipped to relieve them of as much silver as someone thought he could get away...
I believe your coin has some double striking that is confusing you. The circlular border seems a bit discontinuous and I believe the C of XC on...
What features determine a figure must be Serapis and without which a figure can not be him? Are there no local or other deities that can be...
Both are the same Constantine (from two different mints) but probably not the one you were considering. Keep researching. The coins are fully...
My thoughts exactly. Commodus Alexandria 4dr: [ATTACH]
My wife was a librarian until her retirement in 2003. In her time, libraries were selling off their card catalogs and introducing computer...
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