I think you overestimate the amount of familiarity most people use when looking at money. I understand the current UK one pound coins are heavily...
I have stopped caring about rarity unless it keeps me from finding a coin I want so Ireally can not comment of whether the coin in question is...
Sorry, I was suckered again. I really need to pay more attention to the names and dates rather than assuming.
Aethelred beat me to it but this appears to be similar but weak in the legends compared to the OP coin....
It looks like a Palaiologos style and has more clear letters than most but these are so far out of my area I have no idea.
It has been so long since anyone tried that thing, I lost the key. I'm sure I could remake it but will wait for the need. I did my quiz as an...
If the coin lacks a sharp line on which the autofocus can lock, it may be necessary to use manual focus (if you camera offers it.
We coin collector types suffer from a fact of search engine life. We become accustomed to the best of the search software routines like Google...
Since the advent of digital photos, we have seen more images of coins enlarged to fit the space making a hemiobol and dekadrachm the same size on...
What would you like to see different on your reverse photo?
One thing I like about ancients is that it is possible for several of us to have collections of more than a thousand coins and not overlap much or...
I'm with TIF: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4567075
These are the coin equivalent of the postcards of oil paintings sold in the same gift shops. They become fakes only when someone decides to...
http://www.westair-reproductions.com/Roman/Twelve+Caesars+Denarius+Coin+Pack.html Westair changes their products now and then. 12 Caesars fans...
As I have posted several times before, I am a fan and member of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. They display rather few coins but have a nice...
I have no knowledge of who made any particular unofficial ancient coin let alone feeling comfortable to make a statement about who made the coins...
While I don't have a high grade one suitable for this thread, the Nero/Roma sestertius is one of his commonly seen types. I am not aware of this...
Perhaps Heritage was going on the theory that anyone bidding on a coin in this price bracket would either have viewed the coin in person or had...
As the results roll in, I find it interesting that winning entries can win only one of the three categories by doing so well in that one that they...
Thanks for the useful material. This Provincial list has a few listing that seem different from what I have observed but I do not have a study to...
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