Most of those are very rare types and should be snapped up by the jewelry market. They are most definitely fake but at the start price, worth it....
I wanted to post a cheapskate ten favorites this year but my purchases seem to have clustered to the point that I did not buy anything worth...
unless what you seek is the fun of washing dirt off coins and hoping your luck will be better than it is reasonable to expect.
You would be much better buying a few idetified or identifiable cleaned but common coins. Uncleaned coins and their cleaning is a specialized...
It may be struck and just a bad photo. The maker signed his work between the double ground lines under the chariot. In Bulgarian Slavic letters...
Westaire Reproductions Limited (WRL) makes copies for sale as copies at gift shops. People buy them and sell them as real. I have a few on a...
I can't argue with your order of horsemen but might have bumped #4 up a spot or two just because it is so much nicer than mine.
I like #3 but the host coin is a Seleucid Antiochus not Roman. That is a clear strike of the countermark and fortunate that the damage to the...
The way I see it, #1 could split in half and be #1 and #2. #10 is a nice example of the early style of these. #3 has all four horses, decent...
Please explain how to tell the difference.
There have been many nice coins posted on this thread above. Most were Rome mint but there were a few Easterns. I will post a group showing the...
When I see something like this I get sick. What does a coin have to do to get any respect from a museum? There are coins in that 'still life'...
Sestertii of this period are easy to find. It is that word 'nice' that is the problem unless you are prepared to pay. I don't have one either....
My impression is that the style of this coin just is not 'right' for the official mint of that period and the chance of it being a...
I'm glad to have seen so many of you posting your favorite 2016 acquisitions. I have been holding off in expectation of a coin I know will make...
Help him out here. This is a nice group. What two coins does it lack to make it super?
Very nice. It seems we see more of this type from Thasos. This is a very nice Maroneia.
I am amazed at how much it helps to rotate the coin so the undertype is right side up. Of course figuring out which side is up is the problem.
[IMG] I have not researched it but it seems the mitre had some variations across time and place.
The question is how an obvious fake gets lost and found metal detecting. There seems to be a cottage industry in dirtying up 'bad' coins in hopes...
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