When you remove a coin from a slab, you might lose the grading or open yourself to new scratches but the coin will still be 'fine style'. I agree...
Excellent coin. My question is whether the globe at point of bust is significant as a mint ID for Galba as it is for Nero or if the die cutter at...
We all make occasional mistakes but fakes tend to travel in like company so finding three together would suggest the source was not to be used...
27mm 17.17g - folded rim - Silly me thought it was defective but now I learn it is fabric? [ATTACH]
Budgets can limit us both ways. We see many collectors who seem to define coins worth collecting as expensive coins. To me, there are cheap...
Just an opinion not based on scientific research but I would place your current photos in the top 5% when it comes to all ancients posted on CT....
As I always heard it, Gordian II was Gordian III's uncle and not his father.
I have used Elements since version 2.0. This feature has not changed. I made these instructions quite a while ago (6.0?) but they might help....
The first thing that crossed my mind is where they came from as a group. With the date spread it would seem unlikely they were new finds. I know...
I'm less than sure of the relative numbers of coins of each of the emperors mentioned or those between them but we all must admit a complete...
I assume this means the old theory of these being coins of the mines for use in the 'company store' has now been discarded? I have never owned one.
What is the latest theory on the difference between EPHE and BY coins? [ATTACH] Overpaid? That is so much a matter of opinion. Since we have...
I wish I had the sestertius to show but no luck there. Instead I'll offer a Libertas sestertius I found interesting because of the flan that...
My Alexandrian is a hemidrachm but of the same type as chrsmat71's big one. 12.56g [ATTACH]
Some are born with big noses; others have nose jobs through die breaks. Valentinian II Alexandria mint with extended nose [ATTACH]
I most certainly do not expect any protection or anything from CT management but I do feel a bit of such protection from CT. I might have coins...
The lrbguy system as I see it described above allows me to collect what other people consider duplicates. Among other things we try to understand...
IMHO GDJMSP is 100% correct and I'll go farther and say anyone who pays 2 cents for a one cent coin seems a little iffy as well. Today I sent a...
I'll show two very different dupondii. Securitas is Lugdunum mint with ball on the point of the bust and no denomination mark. If you removed...
I don't see nearly as many coins, slabbed or otherwise, compared to most of you high end dealers and collectors but I have noted that surface 2/5...
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