What material was used to produce the molds (sand, clay?) and what was used to transfer the master design to that mold? Do master designs/punches...
If I saw that coin on the market, I would not bid on it. The style just does not look like the ones of these I have seen and I have not seen the...
I don't think the OP coin has much wear. The flan was so thin and broad that there was not enough metal to fill both the dies and, in this case,...
Life has become so specialized. Unfortunately, most things are "outside my wheelhouse" anymore and I have not been called "efficient and eager"...
The question I'd like to see answered is why they saw the need to add the Consul date to so few while using the ordinary reverses. Perhaps they...
Certainly modern.
We still use that paper cutter. Always buy quality when selecting a lifetime paper cutter. :)
I love uncleaned lots where you can pick out individual coins for a price and spending a day selecting potential winners could turn up a few...
The kind of hard green that is hiding the letters can often be broken away by pushing the thick spot straight down with a push pin or a similarly...
Two points: 1. One of our number is a professor of Mathematics. 2. You ain't him! (BTW, I am not a professor of English.)
The reverse pose looks like Marti Pacifero but more than one ruler used it. Here are Gallienus and Probus but I believe there are others....
True, but it is good to learn your coins well enough that you can separate all the labels and reassemble them in a certain amount of time without...
I use paper envelopes now having abandoned my trays and cases (off brand not Abfil) because the number of coins made them unwieldy for my way too...
Not my first but the first Trajan coins have portraits looking quite a bit like Nerva. Remember Trajan was not Italian and his appearance was not...
Medoraman mentioned it but we have to allow for his not being a geometry maven and calling the rhomboid head a triangle. My 8th grade grandson is...
The number on the market recently both of these and the last hemidrachms that still had portraits suggests a recent find of some quantity. I am...
http://www.livius.org/he-hg/herodian/hre207.html Herodians account differs considerably from some other sources. Truth gets lost now and then.
Which of these images is a joke to you? [ATTACH] After a weeks treatment: [ATTACH] 3 years later after a second round of treatment. I failed...
I really tried but I am having trouble keeping interest in some of the medieval coins of states that mean little to me. I spent a lot of time...
Could we have a review of any of the references quoted in this thread by any of you that actually own the book? I feel the need for a book but...
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