I noticed you were from Ohio which is where I found the shop that provided the coins I have been posting recently (but in Dayton). They had three...
Practice makes perfect with the photos. Ask yourself what about this one would be better changed and give it a try. Domitian will pose without...
https://www.cointalk.com/help/terms I really like CT but finding things like the rules can be a bit of a problem for those who do not live for...
Perhaps we overlook the importance of Gallus in his day. Constantius II had no son to succeed him and carry on the house of Constantine. After...
[ATTACH] It can be fun to compare lettering styles and faces on coins of the same place and time. My coin has a very different nose and two...
When the Fredericksburg show is closer, we'll need to see if we will be there the same day.
There are some mints with small Aramaic(?) letters in this area. I suspect this is one of those but I'm not an Alexander specialist so can't go...
Did the slabber not ID it?
I now discover that the undertype on my coin is not the Agathokles as shown above (Sear 1200) but the similar (and less common) Sear 1207 from the...
The silver from the event is a lot less spectacular since it just shows Mercury standing with legend RELIG AVG IMP VI COS III. [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Is it related to these two?
Interesting how opinions of price vary... I agree with JA's question but will point out that this particular type seems to be notorious for worn...
My favorite lizard is the coin type showing Apollo Sauroktonos and is relatively common from Nicopolis but is not always easy to find with a clear...
found it: http://perseus.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.73:8:88.LSJ τετρᾶς, ᾶντος, ὁ, A quadrant of a circle, Vitr.4.2.4, 4.3.4,...
The old answer was always that Philip I had a beard and Philip II did not but there are many, especially Eastern, beardless coins that I consider...
While hunting for lions (increasingly dangerous these days) you might as well go whaling. Aurelian's whale from Rome is before the reform that...
The big point here is JA's 'mushy' coin is not at all the same as the OP or Steve's antoniniani but is a post reform radiate which did not have...
A basic collection should have one from the Rome mint and one Eastern. I'm not quite ready to go for 500 of them but do wonder what that lot...
IMHO cleaning it would be as likely to ruin it as not. These are on the border of billon and basest 'silver' where revealed porosity would make...
One of my top 99.5 coins and definitely my favorite Oriens... no lyin'. ;) [ATTACH] The weird part to me is mine is also RIC 62 like the OP....
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