Today's mail brought my winnings from the recent Frank Robinson sale. A couple of them are in the running for places in my year end top ten...
My favorite has been this obol size 1/12th stater of Metapontion (Metapontum) has an ear of grain obverse and incuse single kernel reverse....
I'm not entering but do have a question: I have not seen AVDP written with all those periods. It is the abbreviation for avoirdupois but the...
I agree with Ides' take on this one but it remains a fact that I prefer less and would pay less considering the smoothing but do not know whether...
I find the use of PXV dating to her husband's TRP count interesting. The rules of the mint had changed since the early days.
With no idea of the correct answer: The several officinae that made these coins made coins for the Caesars marked CAESS and coins of completely...
Silver with a very hard life including crystals and the post office. I suspect many Limes labels are on similar coins but we don't always have...
IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG / PON MAX TRP COS V both counterclockwize https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=19171
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There are many very worn denarii of Vespasian since the silver content then was still good enough to make them soft but not so good that they got...
I can recall seeing very few coins of Postumus that struck me as silvered in the sense we see in later coins. By this I mean the wash that wears...
I'll doubt that you will find anything under the brown that you want to see but the type is an early emission which makes silver expected. I...
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There are collectors whose interest is in weight standards and how it came to be that so many standard silver denominations seem to weigh about...
One point to remember when studying the Anonymous series is that we can call the coin Class C and hope/expect it to remain that way while it is...
I believe the worst thing that happened to the hobby was the removal of silver from the coins in 1965. It is not that the silver was gone but...
Some dies early in the reign have portraits that resemble Otho. [ATTACH]
An A on so small a coin seems all too wrong. I will be interested in Dane's theory.
Long ago I was introduced to the term 'brick cleaned' meaning a coin rubbed on a brick to expose the high points and allow ID. straight, parallel...
That may be a F+ but that coin is usually pretty awful so this one was not appropriate for a junk lot. I don't have one (thought I did but guess...
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