My JH2 is not nearly as nice but demonstrates that the coins were struck in strips and cut apart into singles. This one had a start of a cut into...
Baktria, Euthedymos II. 185-180 BC. Cupro-Nickel Double Unit. Head right / Tripod; monogram to left [ATTACH] Coin where a tripod is a major type...
Where the letters break can get creative. An enjoyable sidelight of these coins is watching how the die cutters dealt with fitting the letters...
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/board/index.php?topic=29974.0 It is a lot of fun. Curtis's instructions IMHO play down the trouble with...
There is a dangerous fake Vetranio making the rounds. I bought one which I later returned but in the meantime I sold my previous Vetranio so now...
The biggest reason I don't approve of 12 Caesars collections is that I don't like rules that limit you and prevent interests that you might...
There are plenty of British ancients. My favorites are the issues of Carausius but the London mint remained active for years afterward. This one...
The coins of the times and places discussed here are interesting in the way they differed in approach from those of Rome that most of us find more...
The Vespasian is close to a genuine sestertius type but the 'Greek' is far enough from a genuine style coin that I'd call it a fantasy. No one...
Drusus was back on post 105 sitting next to Germanicus. Too many rules!
http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/pdfs/Syracuse_Boehringer_and_Tudeer.pdf The question to me is if this is a die break or material added to just...
Sorry this thread failed so miserably. Would it have gone better using the ERIC II rarity list so the first ten names would be people most people...
For Gavin: Compare your Constantine RIC 7 to my two losers. Both of mine are the same issue but from shops 5 and 3 for the two Augusti that...
This is great news for those looking for some of these coins. I was hoping Sev would not feel pressured to take a loss on these coins. I suppose...
I am 100% with Victor on this one. If you wonder if there is a chance a coin might be fake, you might investigate further. If you think a coin...
I apologize for any violation of privacy I may have requested but the fact remains that the other options make going straight to 'Ignore' more...
I would value the lot at about 10 times what you paid and that is allowing zero for the three bottom coins. The Commodus is not all that bad for...
I greatly enjoy seeing AJ's upgrade distater but I never like the resurrection of old threads. I am too stupid to look at every thread to see the...
May I point out that our numerology falls apart in this one regard. #2, 2, 2 on December 2 is in no way a second rate member of our CT ancients...
That was my original feeling but I have reshot the thing half a dozen times since this was first posted and am still not satisfied. I couldn't...
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