When flans are cast there would be a tendency for a scale to form on the surface that should be cleaned off to give a clean strike. There must...
Excellent coin! When you decide you need a denarius with both of these people on it, the choices are very limited. There are a few bronzes but...
I believe JA is correct about Constantius rather than Constantinus but there is NO WAY that this is RIC 49 with those dots above the standards...
Many coins and certainly the Republicans were issued so many to a weight of silver. It was important to them that they got 72 (for example) coins...
Like eBay, vCoins is not a dealer but a group of different people with different degrees of honesty and ability. They make an effort to handle...
I also remember seeing these in the dollar days but never got one because I had no idea how to tell a 1380 from a 1980. When something is made...
Sallent's coin reminds me of when I got my first Istros years ago. The way they cast the blanks for these seems to result in a ridge on the edge...
While any serious collector will be buying books, too, Republican coins are particularly well represented online. If you learn to use their...
9, I now realize that I learned from Sear so I know, for example, where Sicily is and where Italy is but separating the dots in the Peloponnesus...
While I have seen better strikes on the reverse that is a great portrait of Philip II! Have you seen these with tree detail beyond outlines?
Pellinore's coin answers the question of the style of Mikey's coin being odd. The two use the same obverse die suggesting to me that Zeugma...
However, the coins shown by red_spork are no where near AU even if you allow for that grade only being used by slabbers. His and mine shown...
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/10/science/scholar-detectives-learn-how-augustus-idealized-his-image.html Over the years I have been led to...
Please provide us with links to discussion of the recarved option. The article below mentions the rise in groundwater causing peeling on some...
The odd part to me is how the Elagabalus style is more crude than the Philip. If I had never seen the type before I might have called it a tree...
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