Alexandria issued debased silver tetradrachms and copper drachms in the early empire. After the second century, the drachms became very rare and...
The two bronzes shown above combine to spell the ruler name Philetairos. Getting the whole name on one coin is a lot to ask. To make it worse,...
No, it is a Provincial tetradrachm of Alexandria. I believe the statement was made to mean that he usually did not like the Empire since he is a...
While I appreciate the hardcopy book, I really wish there was an easy way to digitize all those old catalogs indexing them with keyword or catalog...
Sorry I missed seeing this before it went through all the bad information but the correct answers still got here before I did. I do not live...
I also see an advantage to specialization here in not having to explain details like tipping in PR or are differences between PR and and estimate...
The two Romans are Slavey Petrov products. The tetradrachm may be, too, but I'm not up on them. A real tip here is that the Julia Titi and the...
It happened. If you play your cards right you probably could sell enough numis-fashions to cover the coins.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] My Alexander drachm has the bee under the throne. The small AE is ordinary but has a tiny countermark making it unusual. I'm...
While we see many fakes, I question the 90% figure unless you are talking about things seen in Chinese gift shops and the charm market where...
We should not be amazed that prices changed over the years in Rome. Look what has happened to your dollar/pound etc. over the same number of...
OP = original post or the coin that started the thread. Sometime we get carried away and have shown many coins that may or may not be related so...
Perhaps we underestimate the thrill of bee products to people that had no five pound bags of refined sugar in everthing they ate. Of the bee...
I wasn't going to comment on this until you played the 'very reputable' card but really... I assume this was a company that does not specialize...
All of our Roman coins came from Europe; some just now, some 400 years ago. My first ancestors came over when the trip was more of an adventure....
The problem I see here is the difference between a 5 cent coin and a $500 coin can be a distinction that none of us would recognize. I don't...
Gee, Randy, when I think of PARL curls, I think about the ones on the horse's rear. [ATTACH]
Of all the 'reforms' we see in the period we study, Anastasius changed coinage more substantially than any. He did not just restore a previous...
Also interesting for the bare headed portrait of the most senior emperor
Yes, fourrees are usually silver over copper but there are gold over silver, gold over copper and very rare copper over iron. I really want one...
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