There were two ways of measuring weights of coin flans. Rarely, the mint would adjust a blank to be exactly what it was supposed to be. More...
Since it was mentioned, I'll show a Decius antoninianus overstruck on a Geta denarius. Overstriking was not rare but being able to identify the...
http://probvs.net/probvs/ You might enjoy the above website.
Mine has more wear on the obverse but I believe I recall someone here had one with a better strike on the face of Jupiter. Facing faces always...
I'm trying to think what your postage and border fees would be on the Sphinx.
The problem with books is their relative price to their value. Some, like Anthony, are cheap and no-brainers but others are becoming collector's...
I know a couple collectors in their 90's and one of my favorite dealers is mid-80's working shows about 40 weekends a years. You are what you do....
I always wanted one of these and listening to the news every night makes it hard to avoid famous people being infamous which reminded me I always...
The coin reminds me of my recently shown Volusian from Alexandria. I could not ask for a better face and top legend but there is a lot of...
I suppose there are coins that belong in jewelry more than others but I still prefer to see it limited to ones made long ago or using fakes since...
If there were a skill I'd like to develop it would be the ability to look at a coin like that and tell if it would clean up using my skills or...
I bought mine as a coin of Harun al Rashid of 1001 Nights fame and friend of Charlemagne but it turns out just to be a Bagdad 801 AD which is as...
http://numismatics.org/crro/ In an attempt to find a photo of one, I discovered the above link is now dead. Anyone know details?...
70 and my only grandchild, 14, is a disappointment. He has no interest in coins. He is, however, very proud of his nerd status, owns way too...
My best guess is this earliest Ptolemy I as satrap in the name of Alexander. That would make it the first Hellenistic coin or close to it....
What is it? I'm seeing a Flavian Roman reverse with Spes and a Ptolemaic obverse with Zeus.
I'll guess it might be a Helena but that is using a lot of imagination. It will never be fully identified to mint and minor details. I hate to...
I do not know except I know I sold it in 1974 when I sold all my coins except for these three which appear in a photo taken in 1964. I know I...
Rare is a hard term to define but I would call the coin worth owning. A better photo might make more people agree with me.
For years I wondered if languages other than English had the problems we had with dialects. Then, one year, my daughter who taught Kindergarten...
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