When the list of great numismatic experts is written, Littleton will not be near the top. This is a problem with our hobby. We have some great...
That is a fine reverse die. The blank on which it was struck appears to have been overfilled compared to most made in the open top molds of the...
Newmisnewbiest's late Domna is a fine portrait of the period. I want to show a sestertius of the same time that has a really strange treatment...
Yes! The most faked coins are those that appeal to people who do not collect coins and a major subset of these are the coins mentioned in the...
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I have never seen, let alone recovered, a coin from the 150 I sold (regretfully) in 1974. Congratulations.
We all have standards by which we judge coins. I do not mind wear at all compared to coins with poor centering, rough surfaces and poor metal....
These certainly are more interesting in groups arranged to show patterns in style. Proving how these patterns relate to date and place may take...
Yes, if you are looking for New Years resolutions that will make collecting Greeks more enjoyable I might suggest the following: 1. Learn the...
Too easy. I agree it should be Titiana on the reverse due to the LA on her side. I have seen metal fakes of this type but they were terrible in...
I was thrilled to receive the item in the photo below as a gift from my late friend Roger Bickford-Smith over 25 years ago. Roger was not a...
This is exactly the point. You can not expect a fine style owl of the 5th century to be matched by a coin struck even just after Sparta defeated...
I have never seen this marble. Can you provide a link to where it is explained and identified? The hair is quite different. Have you seen a...
I would be interested in seeing a post in a month listing ffivn's ten favorite coins with a short reason why that coin made the list and another...
Many different styles seem to pop up in Spanish mints of this period. Some look a bit like they were done by pre-school artists. I have not...
I find it interesting that some earlier Domna portraits look wearier than those of a couple years later. The first two years of the reign were...
There is nothing wrong with the style of this coin. I see many good points in the coin as a representative of what it is. As listed, it is from...
Greek coins would have served no better if you had approached it with the same ideas that drove the interest in large Imperial bronzes. There are...
I have always been fond of this one die from a sestertius of Caracalla. [ATTACH] This Domna was from roughly the same time and may have been the...
When Septimius died, the branch mints had been closed leaving only Rome making denarii. However, a fourree copy could have been made anywhere so...
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