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The 40/4 is correct. The coin is RIC 40 page 300 volume VII officina Q=quartus=4. I have not seen it presented 40/4 but I see no reason not to...
Mithradates III, AR drachm Parthia, 57-54 BC Margiane mint (see the M under the bow) [ATTACH] Phraates IV, AR drachm Parthia, 38-2 BC...
Samprati, Malwa - this is really pushing my limits!!! [ATTACH]
Khusru AR drachm, Mirbud (MB) year 13 [ATTACH]
Magnesia ad Sipylum, Nero AE 15, bust of Senate [ATTACH]
Mallos, AR obol, c.400 BC winged torso/swan I'll bet you don't have a worse one of these. It took a while to ID. [ATTACH]
Mesembria, AR diobol?, 0.88g E retrograde, countermarked H in circle, ex CNG 45 lot 242, 1998 This is the commonly faked one but I think this is...
Metapontum, 1/12, 540-480 BC [ATTACH]
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Your coin is Rome mint but I am away from home and can not look it up. It is not good to try to find a close match and copy that RIC number...
Doug has the other kind of bulls, unfortunately. Six different mints' junkers; no real nice ones but a couple are OK. The first one was $7.99...
Maybe we should answer questions with illustrations. Are these two coins the same? No! The first reads CONSTANTIVS and shows two standards...
Having decent photos of every coin makes the choices easier since I can see any coin on computer or even on a Nook. I now use paper envelopes...
Yes, they have been very creative but usually copy known types at least to a degree. I suppose it is possible that there is some generally...
Among the questions with no answers is just how many types of ancient coins were made but no longer exist in even one specimen and how many exist...
Great article but I can't help thinking how hard we are on coins with a little surface smoothing. I'm still not ready to seek out well tooled...
I really disagree with this one. After being in the hobby fifty years I see a coin I have never seen before almost every time a go to a show or...
We will all have opinions but it comes down to what fits you. I am much more pleased by good surfaces on worn coins than even slight roughness on...
Larissa, fourree drachm 400-344 BC [ATTACH]
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