The image is better but still not sharp and still contains 90% background and 10% coin. Now we can tell it is the token as suspected and it is in...
The coins come from the time after Sparta was defeated in the Laconian war of 195 AD and was forced to join the Achaean League. You will find...
Your New Style tetradrachm shows the workshop letter E on the amphora that usually wears off early in the game. I am surprised we don't see more...
AE4 Arles - I love the wavy lines in the campgate. [ATTACH]
Perhaps we need to address the question on when a large countermark becomes an overstrike. Does being two sided make the difference? Do I need...
It is good to see such a clear undertype on these.
Looking at TIF's tetradrachm and my hemidrachm, I wonder why Aelius had reverse legends while Harian coins from Alexandria were simply dated....
I always wanted one of those but they are out of my bracket. If I were shopping for something pre-denarius, it would be aes grave. I am happy to...
I believe that overly long posts attract fewer readers than they might deserve. I have had better luck breaking things into smaller pieces. You...
I always marvel at the variety of type available on Parthian bronzes and, to lesser degree on tetradrachms, while the drachms are 99% archers....
His Provincials from Alexanria and Antioch (below) have hair added but not in such a way that we laugh at them as with the denarii. Of course...
I agree that this is what killed collecting from circulation but that has changed. I collected from circulation starting in the mid 1950's when...
This tale reminds me how the role of coinage has changed in the last 50 years. Today with so few people paying with cash of any variety the young...
That is a wonderful coin but I am having trouble understanding how that head is determined to be a pharaoh as opposed to some other Egyptian and...
What amazes me is finding a coin with all those letters on the flan and legible. That is a nce coin.
You have good taste in coins. The Magnentius is Amiens mint (AMB) which is my favorite of his mints because of the style. They do tend to be on...
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