The coin is great and Tom is a regular stop for me when I am visiting the Baltimore shows. Nice guy.
My first impression is that it is a modern copy of a Nero tetradrachm. It appears to have a casting seam on the edge and looks much more coppery...
Most people select a coin by grade but I am most impressed by style. My favorite Falling Horseman is the Amiens (Ambianum). Few people know that...
Nice semis, Eduard!
I wonder if ours knew each other in a previous life??? [ATTACH]
Lot 907 was a group of 17 antoniniani of Gordian III. I was unable to spot what I considered to be a likely lot but there was lot 626 which was a...
The coin with all its good points shows texture (dark in photo) on both sides but worse on reverse far beyond what could allow a 5 for surfaces....
We have a very unusual situation in the fourth century. There are many different types of coins and most of them are somewhat boring people...
Note that Carthago's Caracalla rider is looking straight at you while the others show her looking where the lion is going. There are several...
I sold 150 coins in 1974 to Joel Malter for $500. I do not have photos but some of the foil pressings are still in good enough shape to...
Fortunately we have a book for that. The great Reka Devnia Hoard of 1930 consisting of 81000+ silver coins included a bit over 7000 coins of...
Constantius II, FH3 Siscia mint, probably late 355 to the end of that decade - mintmark ASIS with Siscian letter following that looks like a...
The problem is not that mistakes are made; we all make mistakes. The problem comes when a dealer expects the customer to bear the cost or trouble...
I have to say that is probably the worst coin I have ever seen sold with a provenance to a previous collection with the possible exception of my...
Those are nice examples from the middle period of the reign and more well struck on full flans than is ordinary for that period. They are...
I loved that type, too. My Domna came from the Kelley sale in 1997. That was a great sale for Severan and other Eastern mint coins. It was...
Somewhere between Roman times and today, people gained the feeling that the army would remain loyal to the commanders or the state just because...
The Hercules is not a rare type of the Rome mint but people here probably get a skewed idea of what rare means from all the really rare Eastern...
Is it likely a special issue made in Rome and shipped to Britain for distribution as favors to leaders of the army there? If so, I would not...
Your reverse die is a two dot version. Curtis believes the dots are meaningless and just put there to fill space. I disagreed with him 20 years...
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