I love the question raised by coins like this. It is my single most frequently ask (of myself) question. This is a very common coin and not the...
So we return to the question of the ages: If you put lipstick on a pig, does it ruin the bacon? The market suggests that there are more people...
The Reka Devnia Hoard count for this reverse was 198 for Septimius and 94 for Caracalla. That makes it among the most common types for these...
A good thing to remember about the rules for the illegal activities of criminals is that there are no rules. We usually see certain metals used...
I am far from expert in separating real from fake in desert patinas but one category I consider fake is a coin that has surface roughness with the...
A person with a background in physics might understand better than I the conditions that produced some of these things. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I agree with the difference here and like the way that you tried to get Steve into the subject by calling them animal coins. I am not onboard...
I love the 8mm thick one!
I've shown the good half of what followed me home from vacation leaving only things I thought interesting and the mistakes. All the remaining are...
Hadrian has more bare head portraits than most rulers. Yours and mine have the same obverse legend. Was there a time in his reign where he was...
OK, time to be honest: Who noticed that my coins were also the same as the one posted by chrsmat71? His bull head is weak but the thing under...
I spent a few weeks very interested in these but fell out due to a few things that told me we were not meant for each other. The OP coin is one...
[ATTACH] The feature that makes a lot of the difference is that the coin not have a very thick patina that fills the fine details. AE4 are easier...
We often say that rarity has little to do with price/value unless that rarity is accompanied by a high demand for the coin. The curse of...
I see no horn silver. Mine is TCONS = Arles.[ATTACH]
I received an email from them announcing the situation but was not bidding in this sale in reaction to their not responding to my inquiry on the...
Sorry, no holes;[ATTACH] [ATTACH] one fourree, one not.
Most of us think of small coins with wolf and twins so it was good to see the Pius sestertius. my pair are Provincials and relatively large....
Looking at my coin I thought was the undertype, I am less certain of the ID. the details of the texture on the thunderbolt and the shape of the...
[ATTACH] The only appeal of this little coin is that it has all the letters spelling CONSTANT-INVS which always truck me as odd considering we...
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