I feel like a spendthrift using expensive store-bought software for the purpose but I never learned to use the Freeware options and have had s/w...
Rube Goldberg just called and told me you are cool! RG is right.
My first RR bronze or at least the first one I still have is this 14.17g uncia I bought in 1988. Was the soil around Rome particularly hard on...
The question included a date. COS IIII visible on the end of your obverse legend places the coin after 145 AD and Pius died in 161. We might...
Coins are not bright. They reflect the light that falls on them. Take your coins outside on a sunny day and they look different than they do...
Certainly Crispus never varied from his father's views on the church but Constantius II was brought up by Arian tutors and brought that conflict...
Can you make out the year date following ET on the reverse? Mine is delta like Mat's but E exists. [ATTACH]
It is not really fair to compare Eastern and Roman mint output. Domna has a huge variation of portraits and they do not follow age. Some mid...
[ATTACH] Similar, yes? With a little wear the wreath ties look like chicken feet and the wreath like bowed legs. When designing coins, we need...
I think you are doing well. The first Gordian could be improved in postprocessing by adding just a bit of yellow and lowering the overall...
There are so many variations of these mid period Rome mint denarii and so few people specializing in them (most of us seem to like the Easterns)...
I find interest in the variations of the Mikipsa coins recorded as sold online. One was very nice but had poor horsehead detail and went for...
Flavius Victor [ATTACH] I see both mine and yours as SCON. Of my 'normal' campgates, I have always liked this Nicomedia mint Crispus for the...
Excellent choice.
Andres2's coin shows the other major version with boy rather than adult on the horse. We each need a dozen or so well distributed among the...
If a coin is cast from a mold made from a genuine coin, the style should be perfect. Certainly we see casts made from struck fakes and fakes of...
I suspect your post could/will confuse some who read. Am I correct that the coin shown is the one determined to be fake by NGC? May we see...
I agree with the idea of buying Numidians with eye appeal. Mine is AE26 of Micipsa. Whether you consider it worthwhile or not depends on how you...
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The chances that that coin is real is only slightly less than the chance that the Powerball Lottery ticket you found in a parking lot was the...
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