A palm but it is only clear on my second coin. RIC is less likely to catalog little details than differences in the mintmarks (even dots). I...
There are two different and conflicting standards here. Greek coins are numbered by diameter in millimeters. Late Roman coins were forced into...
How soon we become dependent on the 'new'. My generation counts itself as oppressed because we once stayed overnight in a place without air...
Both of mine are a bit different making them RIC 435 rather than 429 as I believe to have been correctly quoted by OJ. Can you see the difference...
I have known more than one coin show seller whose hobby was not so much collecting coins but setting up at shows to play dealer. If you are not...
You must study an issue more than I have this one before you know whether dies were engraved by the officinae or centrally for the officinae by a...
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Early on in life we all have to make a decision. Will we follow a career path that leads to secure money or are we looking for the kind of job...
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/denom.html This page from 1998 really needs updating but I have many other projects so don't know when...
A former dealer told the story of being asked if he had made a small fortune in coins. He replied yes but it helped that he had started with a...
Welcome. There are quite a few overstrikes from this period so it makes sense that there are others that totally erased the undertype. We hope...
While I admit there are coins with legends that read Mars and show armored figures, I can't explain why an immoral god needs a shield. The nude...
Perhaps we can note that it is possible to collect 'just one' coin of a series or type but when you open the 'bag of chips' we call numismatics,...
While it is much less popular than the animals of the SAECVLARES AVGG series, Philip's experiment with open officina coding also included six...
The Saeculares legend makes the column seem like part of the set but it lacks the officina numeral of the others making it seem optional. [ATTACH]
It is much easier to find die matches among rare coins than common ones. There are coin types that were made only from a single pair of dies so...
:happy::happy::happy: I just saw the Frank Robinson results were posted and I won the LEG IIII in his sale. Of course you won't be interested in...
https://www.thebalance.com/gold-price-history-3305646 The above is an interesting survey of the question. I remember $35 and really remember...
I like it that way. Notice the person asking has no other ancient posts on his recent posts page. Perhaps it is not what they do in the US...
People vary. My daughter does not want my collection when I pass but she does want my Greek silver group under 10mm.
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