The coin of L. Torquatus has a Torq around Roma. This one is fourree. [ATTACH]
This is not my joke but one I appreciated from a Frank Robinson list long ago. The denarius of Q. Minucius Thermus shows a fight between armed...
At the moment there are 38 Emesa and one Alexandria denarii on vcoins. These include a couple rather scarce ones and one very high grade common...
I found it interesting that Banti considered the monogram under the chin AP rather than ROMA (which seemed obvious to me) but he mentioned that...
Very nice! I only have a couple and neither has the split COS I-I. [ATTACH] I also like that Charlie Tuna shaped flan flaw that takes out the...
These coins do not exist except when they see Martin coming and crawl out begging to be part of his great collection. My top one is the...
Mikey's coin is really special being the Public Silver version while the rest of us have the common moneyer name version. [ATTACH]
Of all the Emesa types the Moneta ones seem to offer the most variations. I don't have a MONEI but I do have a MONE . . AVG. [ATTACH] Why they...
http://www.snible.org/coins/black_sea_hoard.html The interesting thing about the Black sea Hoard fakes is that they were struck from a large...
Theodosius II has the most common and lowest priced gold before the Byzantine period. Add a little bit of wear and being ex jewelry and you get...
I believe most of our objections to beginners cleaning is one of doing things in order. Cleaning and collecting are two different hobbies. You...
Bing's exampe is Arles mint. RS below the ground line makes yours Rome mint. The S denotes it was made by the second (secunda) workshop...
This video was recommended in another thread but shows cleaning at 3 minutes. [MEDIA] Be sure to see the tiny numbers they painted on each coin.
When you say 'in the field' do you mean the RS flanks Sol high in the field? If so, we need the letters in exergue or under the ground line of...
OK, they are different but I didn't know it made a big price difference. I would prefer the second for the Pronepos legend but agree with VK that...
This was not the only fake on that page (in the other selections). There is one there that might be a great buy but I can't tell if it is fake...
It comes in Honorius also. I like my horse's head better but you win the rest of the categories. Both are Cyzicus. Is yours also shop B? [ATTACH]
I can only think of two things more likely to end poorly than a well financed beginner and eBay promises. One is Bronze disease; the other is...
IMHO ancients pay a lot more attention to what I would call common sense in grading or pricing. All coins are cleaned so the amount of value...
The important thing to specialists is not so much finding something for $5 that is worth $6 but finding something that adds to what we know about...
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