I'm with the crowd. I like toned coins with the look of the first much better than shiny ones like the second but I have some like each and will...
While you will have to look very hard to find one as nice as the OP these are common coins available in many variations and mint marks. The big...
I suppose you could make a case that Seltman chose his cover art from the dekadrachm but I prefer to think he was honoring my Akragas bronze....
Sorry I don't have any expertise on these but believe the claws are older and the open hands are in the middle. Late ones show more of a...
That was a later development. This would seem to be a great example of a very early strike. We seem to see more o these field scratches in some...
A lot depends on how you define terms. The Constantinian coin with two soldiers reverse is about as common as they get but there are a few that...
BRUTTIUM, Rhegion. AR hemitartemorion I wasn't going to show this little guy but it wanted to be in the same thread with Steve's massive litra....
Actually there is a hint or two of exasperation on this. About ten years ago I was at a Baltimore show and a friend/dealer Brian Kritt showed me...
Both are very nice coins. Similars: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] My favorite coin of the Bretti is the crab hat bronze. I realize mine is not the best...
Looks like a bottle opener. Many Americans take fish oil capsules but all the references online to cooking with it come from Singapore. They...
How many dies are known?
https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=137296 Compare to the one above (but you will not get that price!). Neither will I. I forgot I had...
The extra d was in honor of Dr. Mudd who treated the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth as he ran from shooting Lincoln and was sent to jail for...
That is not the kind of UR that a collector would have. That is a coin I have seen in a catalog but never in the 'flesh'. Welcome!
Good point. Wikipedia has a list of 23 people by that name including this one: Amyntas was Tetrarch of the Tectosages and King of Cilicia Trachea...
If you plant them in the back yard, be sure you dig them up so we don't read in the press about the proof that the ancient Greeks discovered Manitoba.
Amyntas was the last king of Galatia (in central Asia Minor) before it became a part of Rome. As a Roman client, he was quite skillful moving his...
Constantine II Caesar, Trier mint, first workshop PTR. BEATA TRANQVILLITAS VOTIS XX on altar, 322 AD This is not a common coin but its value...
As mentioned earlier in my shameless effort to get each of you to buy more than one of these coins, there are variations. Banti lists a few...
While nothing approaching the wonderful coin shown by @Carausius, there is one other (sort of) cheap (sort of) silver Claudius. This year 6...
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