Excellent coins and photos! I like the sestertius as is but would lighten the dupondius just a bit. As a general rule, when you lighten an image...
Did it say Aequitas or Justitia? ...or did you look it up in an English dictionary. Dikaiosyne is one of the most common reverse figures on...
Tooth from Akragas [ATTACH] Squashed overstrike from Apollonia Pontica [ATTACH] Nugget from Aegina [ATTACH] Oval from Athens [ATTACH] Oval...
Back to the original question: I see no reason to use a calipers to measure the thickness of a coin. Relief would be the difference between the...
I drink water which is free here but not everywhere, I hear. You may fight all you want about International exchange rates but you don't have to...
The heads are shown with a drape over the head appropriate for the portrait of a dead person. Part of the bowed look may be due to my not...
It still comes back to the question whether things made not to serve as coins are really coins. I assume this will sell for a bit more than ten...
The second coin in Randy's pack to me was an Islamic fals about which I know as little as possible. I consider the coin rather boring but the man...
[ATTACH] Another tip is the eagle type was used for both at the same time when Vespasian was COS VII and Titus was COS V. It is a good idea to...
I note the letters on the reverse are mirrored. Was that language written in both directions?
That is part of a series honoring Constantine's ancestors biological and adopted. He claimed descent from Claudius II and there was his father...
These are the two most likely types for Julian as Caesar under Constantius II. His portraits as Augustus were very different. Every mint had...
I do not usually collect modern coins but this is struck more in the fashion of ancients so I found out what it was before I found out when it was...
Julian II as Caesar?
My sestertius has been with me since 1990 but I m not the one that used it as a pocket piece resulting in the polished and worn surfaces. [ATTACH]
How many dies of each are recorded? Is it unusual on these to have such a span between numbers or was R13 added later?
I'll root for you but only if you let me pick which denarius type I get. That will sound like a good deal when you consider that winning $400...
Anyone who has the book and likes the photos, please write me a private Conversation rather than posting it. This shows the rig used way back...
It may seem uncharacteristically agreeable coming from me and directed at a 12 Caesars coin but I love that one. I'd rather have it than the...
It is a fact that there are some of the coins that are not fully attributed and some where experts disagree. Relatively few coins wrote out the...
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