I agree fully but the nagging question on these is what makes them so expensive. If this coin appeared in the same sale with an EF of the COS III...
Buying Gupta Hardaker might turn out to be a cheap investment for you. After you see all the things there are and how many of them are very rare,...
Lately we have had some interest in Eastern coins so I'll start another thread on a considerably different piece of silver. It was cheap but...
Didn't someone post a system of separating the punches according to the relative positions of the solid bars and dots? I recall someone posted...
This one interested me and I found one I tought was like it but turned out to be somewhat different. G&H lists six types wit the three people mark...
Were any before 2001? I thought it was an original idea when I did mine but had given up on the Celator by then....
[ATTACH] I have all these I want, too. There once was an old wives tale saying that the fakes of these could be told by the eyes in the helmet....
Many have coins that were issued for a few days but the unusual part of this one is our being able to specify which few days with more accuracy....
I tried to get interested in these but ran into two big problems. First, it seems that many coins are just hard to identify because of the way...
I agree. Ceres is far from common compared to some other Eastern reverses.
I believe the obverse die is the same on both coins.
This is not my picture or hand but one from a copy on sale. It is the original 1971 edition while mine is 1980 2nd with a white dj. I do not...
This reminds me of people who buy T shirts with foreign (to them) words not knowing what they mean. Dangerous. 我很蠢
It is hard to pass up on a coin on your want list just because it is ordinary in style but you always run the risk of settling on Wednesday just...
I'm certainly in agreement with this idea. However I wonder just how many of us really put thought into why we are buying a particular coin....
Sellwood is a really cool book worth owning if you have any interest in Parthian. It is reproduced hand written calligraphy - not type set....
My guess is Orodes II Sellwood 48.1 Seleucia
This is an old thread. How did your effort to work this into daily conversation work out? Would 'Practicioner of the Apotropaic Arts' go over...
We have to ask which means the coin was unofficial and which was just a mistake. I have seen but do not own the normal reverse of this...
This one, too? [ATTACH]
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