Thessalonika issued this type with one captive while most mints had two. RIC, I believe correctly, points out that it is not rare but if you want...
Also, more coins shown here on CT appear a bit dark on my computers. I know there are variations in equipment. There are many online sites on...
Coins without an obvious 'up' are easy to fool the brain into misinterpreting raised from recessed. When there is a recognizable subject, we see...
Much better!
To my eye, lighting the reverse from the bottom makes the incuse areas look raised. I believe just rotating the reverse image 180 degrees would...
I'll show what I believe to be a Hyrcanus II but different in several ways. I do not read Paleo-Hebrew. Note the pomegranate is hollow unlike the...
I agree but the style is not like the ordinary types so I would be interested in hearing what an expert in the series has to say about it. That...
Without pictures we can be of no help. The 1/6 siglos below is obviously fourree with plenty of green on the exposed copper (this is not bronze...
TIF's link is beyond interesting and alarming. To me the best part is the straight forward listing of adding fake sand patinas as an acceptable...
Is it interesting that the CNG group seemed to sell well over estimates just as expected for normal coins? Perhaps the new money in the market...
I hope I picked some different ones. One is fourree and one has a Stannard scoop. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
This thread has pointed out the fact that there are miooions of ancient coins but when you start getting specific about wanting details like...
As fast as they must have been working, I have no problem accepting such coins as accidental. I have a few. Septimius Severus flipover with very...
My understanding of an 'untouched' bronze is one with zero smoothing or tooling. It can be cleaned in the washed sense of the word but not picked...
A large collection is really hard to document in hard copy but a system of the style Steve uses will probably soon strike Steve as less desirable...
Sorry I forgot about the $30 part but that strikes me as a request that would be hard to fill. The OP coin would sell fr more most places.
I really am surprised no one has posted their stater yet. It is part of the same series but I do not know how many of the OP chalkous bronzes it...
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I have to disagree here. I use the term 'Restitution' for coins issued by a later ruler that match a coin issued previously by an earlier...
This thread has moved in the direction I find most significant. Each must ask why they want the tags. Ken is a dealer and rightly crams a lot of...
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