Other possible 'guesses': Many of the coins sold for several times estimate. If he was the consignor, the answer would be shill bidding gone bad...
While answering that question, please consider mine: Have you seen more than one coin of this exact type/dieset or is this coin a discovery...
This is the story of my life in coins. When a coin 'times' itself into view, I'm being cheap but when I have extra money, there is nothing I...
I am fine with Nemo's definition of 'Find Patina' even if 90% of it is caked on dirt rather than some chemical compound. I tend to suspect that...
Congratulations after all those years. For comparison for those not specializing in these, this is the more common version with mintmark under the...
Deacon Ray's coin illustrates the really obvious point on these. The portraits were cut about as shallowly as possible resulting in low relief...
Anonymous, Umayyad Caliphate AE fals Obv: KA/L/ON in left field, "bi-Hims" (in Arabic) in right field, facing bust, beardless, wearing crown and...
You can not say how much fourrees are worth in general. You must compare them to solid coins of the same detail and then subtract for added...
The OP coin is a great example of a question I asked here a week or two ago. When a coin was made by a mint that simply did not care when it...
We see two answers to this question on eBay. One is to tell people that these are rare 1700 year old coins worth using as a basis for a...
25 1/2? :) https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=317241 Good to hear from you, Barry. The CNG resource is a wonderful gift to us all. If...
I would prefer to see what our leaders would see fit to put on coins advertising their beliefs in what was the brag-worthy moments of our history....
Apollo Sauroktonos (the lizard slayer) Geta/Nicopolis [ATTACH] Geta Hadrianopolis [ATTACH] Commodus Rome mint denarius / Apollo with lyre...
Sulla, a cheater? Possibly. This coin is one of the designs attributed to the period after Sulla defeated the Marian party and was handing out...
The question here is what is it about the coin that makes it special. R5 means the editors of RIC found only one museum that had the exact...
As a world renowned cheapskate, all I can say is even I would pay that much for that coin and that alone qualifies it as a grade A deal!...
No but I'm curious. I know a reason to want a sestertius of Lucius Verus but Not Aelius.
The instructions make me suspect that they were written by someone who had not used the product on ancients with hat we call bronze disease. I...
Nice coin and excellent write up. I have never owned an AFR coin and doubt I ever will since I have so many other things on my list ahead of them...
Good idea. A problem with that is the tilt really changes the way the light bounces off the coin and matching the images would be hard. I found...
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