The best show is the one you find filled with dealers selling the coins you like. Shows that charge more than Baltimore for a table, tend to...
Should we also mention that one of the ants shown above has a variation with a captive at his feet? Specialists care about such things but many...
yes, unless you are specialist enough to care about right or left facing reverses.
My only 'as Caesar' Philip II Antoninianusis not clear on the reverse. [ATTACH] The type also comes as a sestertius. [ATTACH] +1 [ATTACH]
Cleaning is for coins that you are willing to risk making ugly or worthless because the 'dirt' makes the coin undesirable. You have the...
I prefer the NAC image lighting and black background.
Those who really want the low end of a coin with three times the Silphium content may enjoy this Kyrene AE16 with reverse of three Silphium plants...
If I were ever to invite you over for supper, most would prefer to come up with an excuse. Tonight's supper is a regular here: Spinach, cabbage,...
https://www.acsearch.info/ Do searches on these key words: Alexander drachm Antony legionary denarius Croesus siglos Ptolemy Paphos The last one...
I am of the opinion that you paid about the right price for the coin and, considering it was a CNG sale, got a good deal. One of the lots I...
...and Randy has put me on the trail of some of my best overly expensive Falling Horsemen rarities. What are friends for?
The point is that Jupiter was the patron of Diocletian and Hercules of Maximianus so coins of theirs with their own cod or with both gods are...
Not I.
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f53.html Guilty as charged. My main reason for existence is to encourage others to spend money on...
You have an advantage over the rest of us in that you can see the coin itself while we see photos but what I see is a messy, overstruck, low grade...
I am very fond of 3d viewing of coins. While I do have the exact 45x unit shown in vespasian70's image and use it at shows for checking tiny...
No expert here but I do know that you do not know what metal was used for your particular coin. We tend to throw around terms like bronze and...
I would date the Antioch at least a year later since it records titles assumed first in 209 AD. AVT is IMP and the left side of the reverse is...
All that's green is not BD. Before you rape the coin with harsh treatments, check the spots for soft, flaky (bad) vs. hard, well attached (OK).
Some sellers of fake ancients make a point of not knowing. It is easier to claim ignorance and refund when caught than it is to educate yourself....
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