That strikes me as a worthy example of a special type to be included in any collection. If it comes delivered at $143, I'd call that a good deal....
Thanks. Those are nicer than I expected from the Gemini unillustrated lots. I am the first to point out that I do not understand 'business' but...
When I was in college, I had a holed and very rough, featureless Roman, probably a Provincial judging from the fabric, on my key chain. After...
OK, exactly where do you draw the line between Billon and Potin? Certainly before Carinus!
Looking at it on a larger computer screen, I am of the opinion that the standing figure is a captive with a beard but not intended to be the...
Terms vary. Potin has no appreciable silver content and we start seeing the term used on the later coins. Exactly when the last coin with any...
The different look may be from it not being the same ruler. I started with Elagabalus, not Alexander. Here are a couple more of Alexander's....
That is a very interesting coin and one I have never seen with a clear emperor. Of course I have spent very little time looking at late Rome mint...
Of all the emperors, I believe that Caracalla is the best one for a face study simply because of the amount of material available. Constantius II...
Every so often we discuss coins here that were struck from 'billon'. This term is applied to an alloy of silver with too little silver to be...
Same as OP.
Yes, that is a good one but also makes the point that most of the ones I have seen have been somewhere between basal and bad shape. Did you...
Knowing TIF's coin is out there make my 46mm one hide in shame.
It was a mistake. I'm going through my boxes now looking for more soon to be JAZed coins but keep finding things that I know I will regret...
Mentioned above, I had no idea these coins existed. First was a coin that the seller could not identify so I bought it as a challenge. It struck...
I had a conversation with a man at the show that asked me if I found what I was looking for. The fact is that I never seem to find what I am...
Having shown the 'special' coins from the show, I'll go on to the ones I might not have bought but they just looked nice and I am compulsive at a...
That is a good photo of an excellent example. The Laodicea denarius below is just a bit later (202 AD) showing the newly assumed COS III on the...
We have seen a lot of owls here on CT but very few have any claim at all on being good for the type let alone good as compared to some of the...
These are hand cut dies newly struck on silver I have heard was salvaged from 19th century European silver coins. The styl is not correct. The...
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