My thoughts exactly. I don't see it as a bad buy at $60. Pre-20th century people filed edges to make them fit the round holes in their cabinets....
Yes, this was exactly why I wanted the 'upgrade'. Yours is very nice 'for these' but suffers the same degree of off-flan letters that made me...
The coin was struck on a flan cast in a tapered cup shaped depression so the obverse diameter is smaller than the reverse. Yours has been filed...
I do not usually upgrade coins for reason of condition. I do sometimes buy duplicates when the new one adds something the previous one lacked but...
I wish I were more confident in this question. I imagine that we condemn a certain number of good coins when, in fact, their only problem was...
I have a question for all who have seen fake owls and recognized them as fakes. We here on Coin Talk are shown many coins of many types and asked...
Nero AE as / Temple of Janus [ATTACH] Caligula AE sestertius Temple of Divine Augustus [ATTACH] Republic AR denarius Shrine of Venus Cloacina...
Yes! No fourrees, that is another thread Tiberius [ATTACH] Antoninus Pius [ATTACH] Faustina I [ATTACH] Commodus [ATTACH] Julia Domna [ATTACH]...
If you really want to help your museum and trust their management to do the best thing for the museum, sell your collection in the open market and...
I am unclear on exactly how we are to rule out or rule as fact whether a coin is barbarous. Certainly there are coins that fit a pattern of an...
Quintillus was emperor immediately before Aurelian who made one of his actions as emperor the cleaning up of the mess called the mint at Rome...
I'm not sure that I disagree with their attitude. Museums are businesses. A few are tax supported but even those have to pander to popular...
Sallent is spot on regarding that Gordian aged up a bit portrait. The reverse honors the happy beginnings of the new administration/dynasty. It...
Most museums don't want donations that are not accompanied by a cash donation that will fund the building and maintenance of the display as well...
I do not agree with the destruction of fakes but believe they need to be shared and documented so they will not be unknown to the next generation....
I tried very hard to get interested in these a few years back and even bought the book allowing ID of hundreds of types. In addition to higher...
I tend to think it is a joke but there are over three Julia Domna dies with IVLA and I don't see a joke there. I don't know. There are many...
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/fakes/displayimage.php?pos=-17636 It seems the finder found it at Saxby's. The above looks like the same coin....
Storage is a real problem when a collection reaches a certain size. I use paper envelopes to store my coins and keep the bulk down to what I can...
Tough love time: If you do not know enough about Balbinus aurei to know this answer yourself and if you do not know the seller well enough to...
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