The above is the great fact of specialization and, for that matter, collecting in general. Rare coins are worthless unless they are accompanied...
I can't say I see it as green on my screen but dark in the recesses can add appeal to beards. [ATTACH] not Philip but certainly boys with dirty...
If you are going to spend $100 extra getting a coin expertised by two services, wouldn't it just be easier to buy a coin from a trustworthy and...
Most likely barbarous, this is much like we might expect an early Syrian mint denarius to look, if such existed. I like to fantasize it could...
You guys play rough! It is pretty bad when your best look is when you are dead! [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Slightly more unusual are postumous...
My observation is that this problem extends far beyond money. The past was a very long time and included several hundred areas of special...
The fact remains that coins would not be smoothed except for the fact that experience has taught practitioners that it will increase the amount...
We may have a terminology problem here. I do not consider ancient copies, limes or fourrees to be forgeries whether or not they were intended to...
As Bing pointed out, they come with the heads going the opposite way. More scarce are coins with the reverse figures going right. There are also...
I wasn't going to dispute this since the vast majority of collectors agree with you and love that corkscrew pretty boy. I am more a fan of the...
They come with a wide variation of minor type symbols. [ATTACH]
You each control what you will pay for a coin. It makes no difference whether a coin is slabbed, stickered or both unless you decide that you can...
The silvered coins were supposed to contain their face value in silver but at debasement of 20:1 the was was needed to remind people that the...
I no longer see it as a current item on their website but the value is at best a souvenir gift shop item ~$5 which no collector of real ones would...
Septimius Severus AE28 Hadrianopolis [ATTACH] Septimius Severus AR drachm Caesarea [ATTACH] Maximinus I AE27 Thessalonika [ATTACH] Gordian...
While none of these fit in that category, there are fakes of ancient coins older than the US. There are many from the 1800's and vast numbers...
Note there is silver at the bottom of this plated tetradrachm's test cut. It was either plated after it was cut or made from dies/mold that...
Don't buy a fake from a fake seller. Buy a replica from a maker that services the jewelry market and people interested in antiquity in countries...
Not having seen the coin is a handicap. How does this compare to the coin as you see it? [ATTACH]
I am sad to admit that I prefer silvered coins that have lost all their silver, too, but I feel guilty penalizing a coin for being closer to...
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