Mine has added confusion from the rotated doublestrike placing extra facial features in the forehead of the main strike. [ATTACH]
I really like the OP Maximianus for the exceptionally clear long form legend used only in the first few years of the reign. Most you see combine...
This is an appeal for full information when you post coins asking for information. The coin in the picture has style that 'bothers' me. I do not...
This thread reminds me of days of old. The coin Sear found to be fake had been sold as genuine by Heritage Europe and Auctiones GmbH. It is...
The type was used at Emesa by Septimius Severus and Julia Domna.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I'm sure it was lost on them. Question: would $10k free credit for their sales be worth the tax bill that would come with it? If their coins...
There was a time these were called unciae in the hobby but that was not correct and fell out of use. I have had one for years which is too bad...
Just asking him how he came to the number for the refund might be interesting. Years ago. I returned a coin to the UK which had been purchased...
Looking at the rest of that seller's offerings, I suspect this was an honest, uninformed error. He shows several misidentified coins labeled Diva...
I am amazed that TIF got what she got out of the image originally presented. I didn't recognize it and I own one. They are common for 1661 but I...
Not as perfect by a long shot: [ATTACH]
I agree with this to a great degree. I do not require a coin to be high grade but I do avoid things that can not be identified. That means I...
Coins of this region often show what you called scratches that were part of the flan preparation smoothing process that did not get erased by...
I don't have an Irish reference Domitian but I do have a green sestertius. [ATTACH]
Since one of the cards shows the Temple of Jupiter, I'll show a Jupiter. This is an Anonymous Pagan issue of Antioch c.313 AD. [ATTACH] Since...
Obviously standards vary. The Lanz attitude is business as usual in paintings and many other art forms. When we support those whose standards...
This one line sums up the situation in so very many cases. When we try to get something for 'nothing', we can expect to get what we deserve at...
Too slick to 'collect' but this illustrates how long Antony's denarii stayed in circulation. [ATTACH] This as of Claudius has a patina worth...
When I see these very flat, thin coins, I wonder if they might have been struck on flans hammered flat to erase a previous coin on the flan. I...
I fully agree with this sentiment but where we differ is that I do not consider condition, appearance and centering to be the most important...
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