I like the ones with chariots riding in flames - the more, the better. Both of mine are military busts while all above of Probus are consulars....
Several seem to have seen more of these lately. Are all you see of this design from these dies or are there other dies involved also? Looking at...
These are traditionally given as 20 and 40 nummi. Why the change?
Yours is a nice example with good surfaces for these billon coins. Santa must have you in the nice book. The other thing you might want is a...
I hope new people here will read and appreciate the 'why' explanations we post. Not everyone will appreciate the idea that there is a reason to...
If you want, you can follow the development of the numeral on coins. Look at this one from a century earlier (Philip I). [ATTACH]
This series is one where you have to decide which faults to accept and which are deal breakers. Looking at Steve's set so far, I see that he has...
Victor is certainly right about the digamma from Cyzicus but we must toss in this coin of Trier with TRS mintmark where the S indicates secunda or...
mozhet byt da A friend of mine back in the fish period was working on developing techniques of fish farming for the benefit of developing...
OK it gets worse. The linked sale from Freeman and Sear 1 lot 340 says the obverse die was used with a sestertius reading PIETAS AVGG SC but the...
The first coin in Mikey's link looks like a die match so the coin is probably not tooled to change ID. Tooled or smoothed is still possible. The...
What I see here is perfectly normal for fakes. If I were to decide to go into the fake making business I could buy a $1000 original and use it to...
Like coin collecting, the hobby of fish keeping 'developed' over the years and many of us did not like what was done to it. I had Mollies but...
Perhaps tooling is taught in the public schools over there somewhere and we should not make fun of the kindergartners?
Under what circumstances did you find it? I such an item were in normal commerce and genuine, we would see similar listings in sales from the...
I suspect they started with a coin like mine below and got a little carried away smoothing the fields. Where smoothed stops and tooled starts is...
Very good choice. It is hard to imagine that there will be nine better.
Those do look like a nice group and will not suffer too badly from being held.
This AE1 of Julian II from the Heraclea mint has had a hard life. I pulled it out of a $7 box at a show a couple years ago and it looked better...
Who in their right mind would buy a coin and put it in the mail to compete with Hatchimals from Grandma? I am a bad example but only have two...
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