For those who do not know about them but have a lot of free cash: The Social War also produced unofficial coins of the 'other side' which copied...
My first impression is that it is a modern fantasy.
No. Early Roman coins are later than the period in which the punch reverses were used. There are Italian and Sicilian coins with incuses with...
Thank you. Too often we hear about Republicans and history based only on the ancestral scenes shown on them but this is an example of a coin that...
Who will tell us why they made so many of these?
Argue? Who would argue? Phocaea 5mm 0.13g [IMG]
[IMG] I particularly like the ones with the archaic numeral for 50 as on the reverse of Bing's last reverse and my left obverse. My C. Piso...
I believe the OP coin was cleaned to the point we question between smoothing of the fields and tooling to enhance some letters. Where we each...
Fakes of these coins are struck from fake dies and have fooled many people more skilled than I until someone figures out the key. Medoraman was...
I also agree with TIF. It also hurts me to see someone recommend a seller that I consider less than honest or informed. I'd rather not be in the...
I was afraid to ask. While asking tough questions, why did Sear not put it in his book?
Like it or not, a real collector need at least two coins of Gallienus. The point is to show the deterioration of the antoninianus during his...
Ptolemy I was not all that handsome and his inbred family got no better. Ptolemy I: [ATTACH]
We have shown these several times before but this time the write up mentioned the spread flan situation which I believe only applies to the later...
[ATTACH] Mine is the same coin .... sort of, anyway. What is really special about arnoldoe's coup is that it is NOT really messed up by being...
Money enters the market in the same way as always. I am retired from, own stock in and receive a pension from a contractor that makes Patriot...
I'm not sure if Aidan meant it this way but all of the facing gorgon coins and several other hemidrachms of the region have been faked and buying...
I believe your obverse has IMP GALLIENVS P AVG Like my second coin below. My one of the similar reverse lacks the P. I prefer these with clear...
That is why some of us have junkers. TIF's coin is wonderful and sells for the same as a fistfull of coins like I have. We each must make...
[ATTACH] Parion was a trade center with many surviving coins of this small size and only moderately pure silver. Yours could be marked down for...
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