Not only do I wish you well in the search but I hope you find one for 99 cents on eBay probably identified as some other town. The best of these...
There are many Jesus coins from the Byzantine period but most of the bronze ones are either crude or worn to the point that the face is not clear....
"The import or export of antiques or objects of art, whether registered or not, requires permission from the Fine Arts Department."...
Worth every cent and more! Lugdunum mint.
Bingo! The thing is a well documented fake with others known that match it down to the tiny bubbles and pimples. The point here is that you are...
RIC 909 of Cyzicus RESTITVTOR EXERCITI is a perfectly ordinary Probus type. Below is a nicer one from the resource Probus.net but theirs is...
We have seen left and right. We have seen military, consular and not. Who can show a military or consular facing right or a plain/neither facing...
I'll overer the broad brush classification of Probus portraits as falling in three groups. Many are 'ordinary' with busts as common with most...
I can't help thinking the first series of AE1 folles were well made and often well struck but lose points among collectors from having so many...
The first is a very good one. We get this variation only in Rome but it comes with several mintmark options. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Yes...
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The hair on the obverse certainly looks wet and makes sense for Amphitrite. This is a beautiful coin and one you should collect one per minor...
Cough-his signature-cough cough! At least you can't say you can't get decent, genuine ancients in any price range.
I do not have big silver but... [ATTACH] AR litra (1/20 of the tetradrachm size) .7g 465-450 BC [ATTACH] AE tetras? (dots - one up, three...
What characteristic are you using to separate Type IV late enough to belong to Darius' reign from those of Artaxerxes III or IV or, for that...
I'll play: I like this coin because it would be the latest dolphin in my collection. For the record, I gave up my membership in ANA while I...
Describes the coin well except, perhaps, for a comment "Eye Appeal - excellent".
I saw your very appropriate size data and consider 25mm close enough to call an AE1. The point was the subsequent posts showing AE3 coins that...
My still life is from the late 1850's (French) and shows a bracelet of Roman coins (Postumus, I believe) on the table at far left. [IMG] [IMG]
This thread highlights a situation that come up here rather regularly that may bother some people and not others. We post photos of coins. It...
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