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See the poor selection around the coins left a gray ridge. That is what you get for rushing.
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For those who want to play, I used a feature of my camera I have never used before. These were shot in camera reducing to this size so I might...
Use the largest image, not a reduced size. There are several selection tools selectable on the left edge menu second block down. It shows four...
I never thought about the obverse styles of Vologases IV. It is interesting how the top of the head overlaps the dotted circle so a coin has to...
It would seem desirable to have a way that could keep you from being fooled by your own work. The other option is that they did not know better....
Tonight's post is a coin from my recent group of oddball coins as were the barbarous denarii shown a couple days ago. This one however is plated...
That is what I would expect from a genuine official hemiobol --- a nice one at least on this side.
The point here is whatever your position you have to decide whether you want to enjoy what you can have or bemoan what you can not.
Be sure to read the three reviews on Amazon. Brutal but understandable...
http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Ancient-History/c/31 Perhaps you saw the above. The prices listed on Amazon are much lower - suspiciously so.
I know nothing. I did see one that appealed to me and the Amazon resource has quite a few excerpts from it,...
The style and fabric of this coin does not seem familiar to me. The weight would make it a triobol or hemidrachm (6 obols = 1 drachm) but I...
Since the subject died in 1862 it is hard to say when or why the engraving was made.
It is true. If there is only one example and no one cares about it, the value is minimal. We recently had a thread on coins in our collections...
[ATTACH] It is not rare as ancient coins go. Victor showed a nice one; I have a moderate one; yours is low end. I imagine there are fewer of...
People in the day valued the metal content of their coins so I would expect coins closer to the ones they copy to be closer to them in...
We will not all agree on the question of what is included in 'damage'. I can accept test cuts as damage although they were part of normal use for...
Museums are designed to show the most people what they want to see. The Smithsonian in Washington cut way back on what they show on coins but...
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