Randy's Domna is one I would pay more for as a study piece. Note the obverse die was used for both of my Venus coins below. The small die break...
The first coin with a portrait of Jesus was well into the Byzantine period six hundred years after the time of John. The first nation ruled by a...
Years ago I wrote a page on the subject for Ancient Coins for Education listing what I considered the 12 most common types that might be found in...
The surfaces do not look right for a Dattari coin so I assume it was cleaned in the meanwhile. It is still a nice example. [ATTACH]
I asked Don Zauche about his use of little bank envelopes. Considering the number of checks and bills he has to take to the bank after each show,...
There are many things I fail to understand about the coinage of the usurper brothers (including why people want to pay so much for some of the...
I never know what to say I paid when I get a bulk lot for a price. If you bought 250 coins with two winners and 248 losers, those two were pretty...
This is a major problem with collecting ancients. If I collected modern coins I might find a dozen people whose collecting interest matched mine...
The little one does not look like electrum in the photo. Is that the photo? As far as college goes, I feel it is a terrible place for people who...
Yes, but that is the whole idea of collecting rather than just buying as I see it. We each will be presented with choices and we each will decide...
My second group of $21-40 coins all came to me from the same Fredericksburg VA show in 2016 (the 2017 version is September 22 - I hope to attend)....
It is hard to select coins to show from this group where I participate heavily. I limit these to things bought in the last year. From the most...
There is a great variation on how barbarous the barbarous ones are. I'm not sure yours is barbarous as opposed to a much suffering real coin....
And I would get it for the PF.... I even like year 7 Alexandria coins just because they might be 'sole reign'. I know we can't prove anything....
The best place to get them is face to face with other collectors who live near you or from small time dealers like our own John Anthony at the...
[ATTACH] When it was mine, the Arcadius had extra interest to me for the 33 inked in the reverse field. I assume it was part of a recorded hoard...
I have no qualms about doing that. I do not believe in buying coins because they are poor but I do believe in overlooking condition issues when a...
Everything is OK as long as we use our books and don't worship them. Martin has shown us that there is a bit of work needed to make RIC V user...
[ATTACH] Mine weighs 7.8g. The matching Severina below is 8.3g. Diameter makes you think of an as but sestertius is probably correct this late....
I 'discussed' several things with Tory that I thought made the book awkward. I lost them all except for the issuing of the plates on a CD which...
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