arnoldoe makes a good case here for the other reason to buy a lot. I have told the story before of buying 34 denarii to get one I wanted. I...
When I receive a coin in a flip marked 'not for long term storage' I take that to mean about five minutes after I get in the door. Oddly, the same...
Cheap is a matter of 'price' but what matters is 'value'. These three are fine examples of what they are. There are two different denominations...
Great pages and no easy read but the subject is more than complex. Pay special attention to the proposed dates going back and forth between the...
I've had shingles and coins and miss the similarity. Oh, you mean when you get an itch for new coins???:eek:
The lack of SC and wide flans of the three coins makes me favor the mini-medallion theory rather than Provincial 'coin'. I don't see this being...
Septimius Severus x2 [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Philip I [ATTACH] Trajan Decius [ATTACH] Trebonianus Galus [ATTACH] Aurelian [ATTACH] Probus x2...
Great coin! It is both full dot border and normally off center. It was really struck hard spreading it out to large size. I wonder if it was...
There are quite a few variations on Maesa from the East. Here are three more. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I believe this is a little faulting in the outer surface where it was compressed in striking. The core metal was the same but not as compressed...
I took a vote and decided that I have too many toys already.
Part of me wants to buy one of those photo lights with 160 LED's and CRI 95 offered on eBay but I am not convinced that they would be enough...
I have no Licinius but two Constantines from that same series. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Like yours, the shield is unusual with structure showing out...
The PP and TC posts sum up the subject well. If you get a photo you like, it is hard to go back and shoot another just like it. It is like going...
There was a day when a person could collect something known to be of no value and people understood that the stuff was trash. The problem is when...
Be glad that most people don't know or care. If the world supply of modern coin collectors all of a sudden started collecting ancients, we would...
Specialists usually buy more coins, not fewer. Ask Martin how many Eastern mint Septimius he bought a month in the first decade he collected...
The people who would be most likely to buy a coin like the Commodus are the same people most likely not to even look at slabbed coins. This same...
Realize that you do not have to do it all this month. I know a collector who has coins he has owned 70 years. My oldest is only 53. Few of us...
I was able to get the Claudius because I have a worse one. I never assigned this a number in my collection but it gas such a nice patina that I...
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