I assume you intend to leave your coins if you ever decide to return to the US. I wonder how customs does with a private suitcase full of assorted...
I see this as a good possibility but the ones that would bring the most are the ones you might prefer to keep.
Most of the seller's offerings on the eBay TIF provided are Antiquanova replicas but I do not see that one on their site. I note the lack of...
We might equate this with the old 'glass half full; glass half empty' dilemma. Many coins have something going for them that, in my mind, allow...
Call it a bad attitude but if the write-up given these coins does not scare you off from wanting anything to do with this operation, perhaps you...
At risk of confirming my position as the crazy old man of CT, I propose this die started out to be a Constantius II but was converted to a Gallus...
I am not sure why but my immediate reaction to any request for authentication of an Athenian Didrachm is that it must be false. Drachms and...
Bury a few of these down by the beach and see if you can make the news reports when someone finds them. You may be the only non-expert in the...
Geta was killed 26 December 211. The 212 date error was based an old error of calculation. The current Wikipedia page gives 26 December at the...
I don't have a TRP XIX AE but have a XVIII sestertius with Annona. [ATTACH] ...and a dupondius with Roma. Mine is 10.5g but the patina keeps you...
I applaud your decision and have stopped except for a couple of old friends in Canada for the reasons you state. Further, I hate to see US...
http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/search/advanced Try the search on this page from the site zumbly gave. Leave blank fields you can not be sure of since a...
What we have here is the coin version of an old theological question. Is it 'Greater than which nothing can exist' or 'Greater than which nothing...
I won't believe these coins until they are slabbed an awarded CACA stickers. :bag:
https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=310133 My best guess is the above. You are more likely to get a reply for a new question if you start a...
I would wager that coin 'professionals' of the day could sense by touch weights and fineness to a degree that no one alive today could match. I...
Dream on. You left out one that I consider important. Perseus must hold a weapon that shows the curved hook appropriate to the Harpe he was...
This is an excellent review. I hope everyone sees that no amount of cleaning will restore the lost legends and chipped edges of the lower priced...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I believe there once was a tendency among scholars to give a name that seemed reasonable for a mint location when it was only...
Somewhere I got the idea that some 'surviving' statues came from trash heaps where broken marble that had outlived its original usefulness was...
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