http://esty.ancients.info/imit/ Read the above.
Start by selecting a dealer who specializes in ancients preferably near where you live and offering coins in your price bracket. Telling us that...
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1596405 See if the above link answers any questions? I don't have a Nepotian.
Now I feel like a cheapskate using thinner wood stock. Q's lumber choice would not vibrate in a 7.0 earthquake. Oh, wait, that's the idea isn't it?
TIF's answer is great but like all good information it brings up more questions. Why do we metal people feel the need to separate silver from...
If you are willing to pay for the coin as it is and can risk removing the make-up to see what is under there, you must be used to paying too much...
This is not one of my specialties but I think I am correct here. Below are two coins of different 'styles' without mintmarks. I consider the...
I see a real possibility that the Nerva is also a dupondius with much wear erasing all but tiny tips of the crown. Mine is 11.0g. [ATTACH]
I am amazed there is so little added factor of the coin being a Restoration piece. None of them are common; many unique. I do believe most...
Many tripods allow the center column to be removed and reinserted from the bottom to allow shooting straight down. I still prefer a small wood...
I guess I should go back and look at all coins in search of more shoes. [ATTACH]
By CNG standards, those are junkers. I was lazy not shooting the boots as a focus stack but this gives the idea. Note both were shat at the same...
That V II solidus was lot 155 in NFA XXII June 1, 1989. If you got it in 1990, it must have resold in XXIII for which I do not have the catalog....
Valentinian II http://esty.ancients.info/ricix/type12.html assuming there is a faint thrid G on AVGGG? [ATTACH]
I discover I have more fondness for coins of Magnentius than most of you which led to my buying two AE2's of his in the last CNG Electronic sale....
When I was 12 years old we were told that newspapers were written on a 12 year old reading level. Keeping that in mind, perhaps you are right. I...
No soldier in the 225 denarii a year group would have been paid in gold. The coin could have been part of the pay of a centurion or higher...
I visited a small coin shop last year and saw about 100-200 low grade late Roman coins in a bag with about 50 genuine Byzantine bronzes of the...
There is always added interest when the moneyer made an appearance in history other than as a coin issuer. We always add for different types....
I'm with JA on this one. Over half of the coins marked 'Alexander' were issued after his death by someone (king) or some city but some scholars...
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