What evidence do we have that a 1000 talent payment was made in coin rather than bullion?
Part of the reason why rarity is no good measure of value in ancients is a failure for us to agree on what we mean by rare. Many late Roman...
Certainly not I. The question we all must face is just how much we let this uncertainty drive our hobby. We have shown examples of fakes that...
How do you interpret the F in RFP? This is not the only time that Rome used this mintmark.
There is also the question whether a specimen or test strike is really a coin and, for that matter, whether tokens are but we have ancient tokens...
I don't know how far you want to go on ID but the SS Provincial is a one assarion of Nicopolis ad Istrum, Moesia Inferior with a reverse showing...
Romans used a very small list of praenomena. There are a few rare ones but most are seen with their standard abbreviation. For example T is...
eBay would need to be a bit careful acting on the word of people like us. Today over on another venue there are people saying that acsearch...
These cast fakes were made from a genuine original which was off center and had a curved cut on the face. The more you see, the more it strikes...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Septimius-Severus-DENARIUS-ROMAN-COINS-/272225734803?hash=item3f61eb1093:g:CGAAAOSwMVFXIJpf I don't know. I REALLY would...
I agree here but there is also a great opportunity for adding comments to these classic catalogs correcting errors that continue to spread...
The JC obverse is well done. The reverse could use contrast. Try shooting the Augustus so you get the color right with out processing. A little...
There is enough in this statement to really make you hope they have someone on staff that can handle the sorting of the coins. The photo of that...
My Gragulus fourree comes with a reverse of M Aburius. It seems to have been the fashion of the day to mix your fourrees. [ATTACH] When it...
Every so often this question comes up and send me researching. This time I happened upon a listing for a second specimen of a coin I previously...
Did anyone see anything as late as a Constantine? The ones I saw were more likely first Tetrarchy making me wonder if they mistook Constantius I...
This is not really a rare coin but a victim of circumstances. It was believed to belong in the period of RIC VIII (Julian II) when RIC VI was...
Typo corrected. The OP coin may be more rare but rarity is not what makes a coin sell for more. The demand producing feature here and the...
The bottom line of this thread is that the $325 coin reduced by half is still not as nice a coin as the $140 coin which did not require...
Different people have different answers but I believe the easiest way to get a black background is to keep light from falling on the background...
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