Too late to vote but maybe if you feed it well it will grow. Mine is 12mm thanks to a heavy handed hammerman. [ATTACH]
The variation in Septimius portraits in the early period makes you wonder what he really looked like but the fact that he had been away with the...
[ATTACH] I am just contrary enough that the forked beard portraits rank well below my SS favorites. I prefer the early ones of Rome and the...
Mat is nicer than most of us who would expect you to provide a link we could click to see the lot. IMO one of the coins is worth $25; the rest...
Thanks. Your link mentions: "ΟΥΛΠΙΑC CЄΡΔΙΚΗC, or, on small coins, CЄΡΔΩΝ." which I always found a bit odd as on this AE18 Caracalla which has...
I have serious personal conflict when i comes to silvered coins. I know they were issued that way and high grade examples should retain silver...
I do not have in memory exactly when we have coins from Serdica but I know there was a Provincial mint there before the Imperial mint was opened...
Not my favorite portrait (that would be a Septimius) but my favorite Gallienus portrait is this military lefty with Medusa shield. [ATTACH]...
Henry III/Jacob on Brust (Bristol) ex. John Anthony on CT. I found interest in the ligate letters included the bridging different words N of on...
There are many styles of Phoenix coins. I picked this one for the detail on the globe. SARL [ATTACH]
Most certainly! It is much harder to find a really nice AE4 falling horseman with full legends and all Julians are late so your coin is quite...
My guess would assume that the undertype had a deep scoop and not particularly high relief design. [ATTACH]
My first guess is that the coin was overstruck on a Republican with the scoop but hit hard enough that all the undertype detail was erased.
Q beat me to it. We should be glad this is a seated coin since the reclining version comes in more regnal years than not. Mine is year 12 but...
The common year for Nilus seated with crocodile is 16 (LIS). It is a lovely coin save for that little omission.
I believe this is a reflection of the fact that the subject simply does not lend itself to a one-stop basic resource. There are several people I...
Between imitations and issues of some of the splinter empires, there are many of these that experts might disagree on and I am no expert for sure!...
Bad idea! Sell the coin and buy one you can accept in your collection. You have a crack now. A vise could give you two halves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desoldering You might enlist the aid of someone who works on circuit boards and has experience sucking solder. The...
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/equiti.html My favorite coins of Ticinum are the Equiti series under Probus where the six officina are...
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