I doubt that. There a thousands of low priced coins that are pretty boring and duplicate each other to the point that you gain nothing by adding...
You will learn more from 500 Fine denarii than from 50 EF ones or one aureus but one of the things you will learn is you won't be able to sell...
His thoughts may have been influenced by the boss standing over him yelling 'Faster!'. Did you know if you beat one of the workers, the others...
Most new collectors are amazed at all of the variations found in ancient coins. There are several mints with several workshops working over...
My opinion: This amount of doubling is a fault and would reduce the value. To be an error worthy of adding value, an ancient needs to be really...
From experience: There is always room for improvement but in trying to improve, it is possible to make things worse. Not all ideas are good ideas...
These are similar but genuine. The Greek city Thurium (Thourion) in southern Italy made various bull coins in several denominations for many...
To make this point, I show a very early coin of Aurelian before his currency reform or, if you wish, cleaning house at the mint restoring a degree...
That is a great improvement!
I like them both, coin and presentation. I probably would omit the RIC number since that volume of RIC is among the most dated and you might be...
Are you using autofocus? If so, there will be a little red light show which sensor was used for the focus. Be sure that the active sensor is on...
Can you explain how you managed to get those blue obverses and decent color reverses. Reshoot when this happens and learn what happened....
They are nice coins but minor variations on these coins including armor variations are not exactly going to make you rich. The left facing...
I had never before seen a fake Elymais but I believe those two are fantasies and quite unlike the larger Elymais coins. Your photos are fine to...
I use paper envelopes. You can't see the coin through them but that gives the excuse to take the coin out and handle it and not have to look...
I don't know if our know-it-all posters ever post anything over on the US or bullion sections of Coin Talk or if their mission in life is to show...
If it takes Mat 10 coins to represent US coinage to a certain level, how many coins would it take to represent all of ancient coinage to that same...
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I have two Kyrene to show. The first is AE23 of the koinon straight across the field variation. [ATTACH] More unusual is the AE16 Kyrene 322-313...
My sixpence dated 1567 is from the period of experimentation with 'milled' or machine pressed coinage. The story and politics of the matter is...
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