I would love to know today what the market in 2100 (I hope I am not cutting your life short with that number) will say when your grandchildren...
If we define mint state as perfection, relatively few ancients left the mint that way. The differences in strike on US coins between a MS61 and...
That is the kind of coin that deserves the grade given and is wronged when lesser examples are given the top marks as well. Congratulations.
We all like to show coins that don't come up here often. This is an Ar Grosh of Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria 1331-1371 AD. [IMG]
My Cyzicus blow shows retained silver. It is as close as I have to your coin with silver. There are many, many variations like the Alexandria...
Coins of the period that were silvered probably fooled no one into thinking they were silver but did serve to indicate that the alloy used for the...
Averages can be deceiving but any way we do the math, a 400 coin day works out to a minute or two a coin. Knowing nothing about the process of...
Please show us examples of this.
In the 1970's I was the photographer for the American Cichlid Association and took many fish photos. There was a Florida fish farmer that even...
I have often said here that people who want a catalog number should buy the catalog but we regularly get requests from beginners who only want a...
These last few coins are perfect examples of the reason so many of us do not like grading ancients with the standard 'fine and friends' system....
Nice coin! I believe mine is perhaps a century earlier style. [ATTACH]
We see here the battle of the experts. Babelon started the Vacuna ID but Crawford favored Isis. Harlan opts for Fortuna but in a weak way...
I have absolutely no problem with the idea of a Pantheon portrait but a lot of the personification ID's we use are probably based more on the way...
I like the JA form of name encryption since we can more easily back and forth between names. I do prefer it when people use the same name on...
The Zeno link has good discussion of why it is probably a leopard down in the comments at the bottom. In short, during the time and place the...
It is a very nice coin. I would not remove it from the slab because someone will pay more for the grade listed than I would for the coin. Lets...
Glad to see you back in the mix. Some prices have gone up but people like me who paid too much in the 1990's still have not come above water so a...
Sell it to someone who does not worship RIC. Die duplicates in this period are not easy to find. They made a lot of coins and used many dies.
Ancient numismatics is often a popular hobby with theoretical physicists. In both fields "I don't know" is usually the most nearly correct...
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