Does everyone realize that Decapolis is not a town but means '10 towns' of a region we call ancient Syria although the cities are, today, in...
I wish you the best on your quest. It will not be easy. I have no delusion of ever owning a dekadrachm and have so miserably failed to find a...
Letters need to be smaller when placed on an as. [ATTACH] Earlier sestertii don't have the fine style of either legends or portrait. [ATTACH]
While I do not disagree with Valentinian's explanation, we have to remember that there is nothing more futile than trying to make sense out of...
If #1 is fixed as it should be, posts 2 through 7 need to be eliminated completely since they refer to the wrong coin. In post #8, OJ asked the...
I'm with this plan. My favorite professor in college advised, "Learn something about everything and everything about something." General...
This is the question we have to ask. You will realize all that profit only if you sell the coins so if you are in it for the coins and not the...
That is a great coin. The legends tell the story well and need to be read carefully by anyone interested in the type. I can not accept it as a...
I don't see it so that means my reporting on my few A coins would be meaningless. The only undertype I see is the Gordian III on the last one. I...
Andrew collects Republican coins and I believe he is right for those. I collect Severans and clashes are far more common than brockages. My page...
I somehow think this same end would be reached if you sent $50 to many of the people who advised you here or anyone who has collected for a while...
My favorite fake story started long ago when a dealer at a show that I did not know at the time was showing me his low priced coins and said he'd...
Yes. Clashed dies tend to be faint shadows of the obverse mostly hidden by the normal reverse. Brockages will show no sign of the intended...
Has there been a list published of A2 coins by weight and decorations. If we accept the 50+ decoration types as a basis, do the heavy ones tend...
Do you mean 'Classical'? Archaic tets are hard to find in 'very appealing high grade'. I would love to have one in 'pug ugly'....
The coin posted by Numisnewbiest has the city ethnic starting in exergue and finishing at the right with the year date in Greek numerals 268 CΞΗ...
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/book.html#ric My opinions on The Roman Imperial Coinage (ten volumes) is covered in my 1998 review...
Some of us fear that ancients as represented here on Coin Talk are on that same path. I relish seeing posts here by new collectors that do not...
I'm currently at 72 coins for the year but we have hopes for the next two weeks. I don't count a coin until it arrives so things bought after...
Like Domitian, Septimius Severus' Syrian mint "Emesa" had several variations on the Minerva theme but all of his were scarce compared to other...
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