Yes, we are as different as can be. I published a page showing my favorite 100 (actually 99 and a half) coins but, as with Harlan Berk's book...
Read how Galerius died and you will understand. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerius#Death I suspect, that day, there were some Christians...
I agree fully that trays are the best answer and I used them until recently when my collection size made it not practical. My bank offers boxes...
The offense here is when you set yourself up as a big deal auction, charge a buyer's premium and take more for shipping than will appear on the...
One of these may be my favorite but it might be in the next ten or the next. Addiction is a terrible thing. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]...
[IMG] For those new to the subject: Falling Horsemen are usually divided into four groups of which FH4 shows the victim clutching the neck of his...
There are two kinds of horsemen. Randy is into them heavily and is well aware of the rare and the common. If you are just looking for a nice,...
Thanks for he reminder. I had forgotten I won a coin in the last sale. Every time I say that will be the last time but I always bid again. It is...
For the record, the Basil is a cast that is supposed to be a cast and that never does much for detail. I've seen worse. There are several...
I skipped it because I had one. Few of these win beauty contests.
The feature to watch for here is whether the singular ends in -us or -ius. Denarius forms the plural by dropping the -us and adding -i but that...
That is an excellent group and exactly the kind of selections that I seek. Of course I am sure you realize there is a joker in the group but we...
I was amazed that the soft plastic was in such good shape and not at all slimy. I do not know what it was made of. Not all soft plastic is equal....
I ran across a coin on eBay that I really wanted but it came in packaging that was probably worth as much as the coin to most people in the hobby....
A short while ago I showed several unofficial but solid denarii of this period so there is no reason to believe the coin must be plated....
By the standards of his day. Gordian ruled for a long time. His reign saw the final switch over from denarii to antoniniani in bulk so there was...
If the coin proves to be one and the same, I would be happy to have it. I agree fully with your points a, b and c.
For the record, the Romans did not invent the dot idea. Greek cities of Magna Gracea were doing it in the fifth century. They used different...
This is the important part. There was relatively little effort to have every coin weight exactly the same as every other coin in that batch. The...
I can't read your workshop letter but they do tend to be a bit higher like the Z and theta on the below Antioch coins. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The...
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