I believe that is a restruck brockage but only the second one I have seen that I believe to be that. Most I have seen advertised are actually...
That is my exact point. I am probably at about 10,000 of which some were film and used skills that no longer apply. At this rate I will match...
No! The other option is to sell/give the coin to someone who likes it as is and buy yourself one that does not offend you. If you think it is a...
Remember there are those who believe she was a Christian. http://www.numisology.com/Early_Christian_coins.htm
Fred Knust from Michigan of 1st Light Numismatics. He set up diagonally behind Andy Singer and Don Zauche.
If there is a skill that I wish I could improve it would be the ability to look at a photo and tell what my photo of the coin would look like. The...
Do not throw out the baby with the bathwater. I buy coins from some dealers on eBay; I buy coin from some dealers on VCoins. VCoins membership...
Thanks. The coin does have a raise bump which I guess could have been made b a die fault but that is many times smaller than the major situation...
I like it.
Naaa! They were US and token collectors and ate expensive stuff. One guy rode all that way and bought one coin - a 1909S VDB in a slab for $600....
As was mentioned in another thread, there are so many dealers and so many coins, there is no need to shop where people make shopping difficult. I...
This specimen seems to show a tiny gap in the edge of the hole on both sides as if it were a feature of the design (but possibly not completely...
[ATTACH] Above is my answer. As too often the case, my example is imperfect. The legend is weak and partial (M at obverse left) which gives...
This thread and several like it lately are taking a lot of the fun out of this group. On several occasions I have mentioned the really neat...
While there's not much good to say about that band of roughness on the obverse, it is a nice style portrait and the version with Trajan in the...
http://www.doaks.org/resources/publications/doaks-online-publications/byzantine-coinage/byzcoins.pdf See pages 59 and 60 above. The rest of the...
Bronze disease is quite normal on billon coins that are 75% to 85% copper. I would be interested in hearing what the least percentage AE coins...
+1 to the first paragraph and +100 to the last. I have boxes of photos of my coins taken with film cameras and printed on 20th century photo...
The reverse was not used by Caracalla but is known for Severus Alexander. The weight suggests it is not a plated piece so we are left with...
No,I don't but the catalog of them by Martin Price takes two volumes, 637 pages and 158 plates and has increased in value faster than the coins...
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