How little gold has to be in a 'gold' coin before you don't call them gold? There is a lot of difference in alloy in electrum. I have no early...
Most of us don't get much experience with AE before the Sextantal series where an as weighs about 40g. Fractions bigger than that will draw...
Removing surface deposits is cleaning. Grooming them, polishing them selectively or trimming them to enhance their enhancement of weak details are...
My Decius semis weighs 2.70g; my Decius double sestertius weighs 32.51g but nicest ones are over 40g..
Yes, nice! I assume that bulbous helmet backs up the chest area (12H axis?) and explains the chest flatness. If the centering had been a bit...
Last month I posted a Licinius I coin that was issued along with his rare coins for Valens (the RIC VII one not the RIC IX common guy). Being...
Try photographing it on a neutral color background. That red is fooling the camera and making the gold look green which I doubt is correct.
A denarius of Herennia Etrucilla would be worth a hundred times her sestertii but all of them you will see are the Slavey fakes. I'm not sure...
Every countermark probably had a meaning to someone. The anchor is a common sign of the Seleucids so it is easy to guess this mark certified the...
We wish we knew the 'why' for every coin including every unofficial one. Certainly some were to deceive people in the market but when you do not...
BTW, scrolling up a page and down a few on my last link will be an eye opener as to coin prices and ignorance in 1822 numismatics. Roman silver...
Yours is Lawrence 28 as listed in a booklet The Paduans by Richard Hoe Lawrence. IMHO that makes it a full fledged Paduan. There were other...
On both Alexandria and Emesa coins with the facing shield there is something squared between the feet and the shield. Alexandria has fringe at...
I missed seeing that auction. Because I have had the thing for so long, I like to see them when they come up. CNG offended me making one part of...
At 50-50 silver coins still look more silver than the tets I have seen. That is the average attributed to denarii of Septimius. Certainly there...
Since the theme of this thread seems to be the 'not-so-boring', I'll show what I consider my least boring Tiberius types but, honestly, he has...
They have been around for years and many appear in references like Rosen and SNG Turkey 1 but recently more people have strated paying for them...
Paul is 100% right on this one! Studying technical points makes some fakes stand out as obvious and also makes some coins seem more likely to be...
I don't see these as all that common and many are on bad metal. I do admit that Eastern denarii with a mintmark bring more than ones IDed only by...
[ATTACH] That is a fact. The main difference I see is Roma sits on a cuirass and edge view shield while your Minerva turns the shield to face the...
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