[ATTACH] Obviously a 5, possibly 5,I,1? All seem to be chippy and small making it hard to follow. There were qite a few of these on eBay a fe...
I have no problem with fakes that illustrate their type or are educational in some way as long as they are not pretending to be something they are...
I am completely turned off by RR cataloging. First we have that old system where you are expected to know the family name of a moneyer even when...
Many of the links on that page go to Head and Stevenson which are English and much more useful IMHO. I once questioned the Greek arrangement at...
There is another matter called family. For the longest time The coin below was my best of its RIC # but since I have upgraded with a die...
I am so proud of you! I suspect this is the same dealer that sent me the wrong coin earlier this year but wouldn't send return postage so I kept...
I'm very much of the opinion that this is overstruck but I can't ID it. That would drive me crazy. Perhaps the easy ones sell for more because...
I have reservations on just how long it is reasonable to expect a Chryselephantine sculpture to last considering the trouble that would come if...
Dictionaries will tell you that a disease is an abnormal condition that affects the normal function of all or part of an organism. Substitute...
Trajan wolves right and left [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The fact that these little coins have the name Nerva in the legend suggests to me they were very...
Caligula for the remission of the 1/200th tax: [ATTACH] Trajan Hercules/boar [ATTACH]
Besides Augustus on the cover, who do they rate as influential?
Part of me wondered why you didn't buy that shekel one lot before your itty bitty. OK, it was not quite :playful: the looker that AJ's coin is...
The recipe I have suggests 4.24g carbonate and 3.36g bicarbonate in 100ml water for a weak solution doubling the salts for a patina stripper for...
I agree these quadrantes are more interesting than generally given credit. I got the ones I have when they were cheap and disrespected....
Those who object to posting coins in active auctions for discussion are reminded this is such a case.
Let's remember that what was accepted as standard notation in one generation might be quite different in the next. The Hadrian is nearly a...
I agree with TIF about the fakes with no dot in the theta but some certainly have been cleaned off leaving an O. I do not recall a theta with a...
I'm not TIF but this is a pet peeve of mine. The dot denominated coins were based on a full unit of twelve parts. Two dots or 2/12 is one sixth...
The garment pull/spit is considered diagnostic of Nemesis. Claudius labeled it as Pax. Mine suffers from being a poor fourree but the cng aureus...
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