Really? Can you show some? All I have seen are cash type and perfectly round so I assumed they were machine made. Perhaps I need to specify that...
While I have to favor #2, the JQA #1 is special. It was sold as part of a three coin lot 624 for $75. All were different types by Varus. While...
Just like modern tokens, tessara could be anything. In some cases we know what they had to be but in some we guess as best we can. Tickets,...
That is a nice example of a belly punch and foot contact/trip but it is the opposite side getting punched from my coin #2. There are others with...
Priorities will have to put off that quest until halftime. :banghead: https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=76775 It offends me how much...
Perhaps we should mention that there are many modern fakes of these and anyone buying one from a seller below the most experienced might be...
[ATTACH] I am really of the opinion that any coin issued by more than one city but in low enough grade not to be certain which city it was does...
Two of each, one rare. Gordian III as Caesar under Balbinus and Pupienus [ATTACH] Gordian III Libertas showing a flan cut with two square sides...
Mikey's and Bing's coins join mine to illustrate the point red_spork made: I wish mine had the right side legend and hair detail of Bing's....
This is the angle shot mentioned in #8. Sometimes I do buy a coin for the photo challenge. [ATTACH]
Doug's Ten Favorite New Purchases of 2015 Disclaimer: I have hard enough time selecting ten coins without getting too specific over the exact...
Be sure to read the note at the bottom of the page in RIC for #127: "Probably of Antioch but included here because there is doubt." I don't know...
Some will take this the wrong way but I believe it is the truth. Fact: Neither Warren nor I invented the Internet. What we did, along with a...
Buying from a country that forbids export of coins is not the way to build a collection.
Is that a tetradrachm? The style and wear patterns make it look like something smaller... or is that a trick of the photo?
One of you has mine. Years ago I lost an as of Julia Domna with Hilaritas reverse in a chair. When I moved that chair several years later so we...
There are ancients with about 1% on purpose. They believed the coin must contain the silver value of the denomination but inflation kept reducing...
The centering dot from use of a compass laying out the outer border shold be on every die but most were erased when the design was cut in the...
Some nose! I find it interesting in comparison with my coin of the type with a very boring nose. Why? I have no idea. [ATTACH]
This is the frequently asked question with no answer. Ancient collectors often include Byzantine which can be nearly 1000 years newer than some...
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