Does this list match what is published in your copy of ERIC II? Mine was a very early copy (one of five sent to this country for review) but...
Should we point out that two different obverses of Faustina I are shown but only one reverse. the reverse of the same Caracalla denarius is shown...
[ATTACH] Ecbatana, Parthia, Mithradates II 123-88 BC
Elaia, Aeolis, AR hemiobol c.400 BC head/wreath [ATTACH]
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It is a wonderful series. The question is not so much whether it is a scarcer one but whether the minor types add any demand for the specific...
[ATTACH] Me, too, but not the same dies
I decided that this one was normal enough that it was official. So many of them are obviously barbarous and many of the barbarous ones have been...
Mikey's coin is definitely double struck. Most Greek silver needed more tthan one blow of the hammer to transfer the design and a little shift of...
It is impossible to tell from a photo whether a plated coin is toned or poorly photographed. Many silver coins tone a bit yellowish but there...
I like the theory that this coin does not show a horse grazing but one in process of rolling down on the ground. If you look at enough of the...
Dionysopolis - Commodus - AE 19 - 2 assaria [ATTACH] This is a junker but a rare city. I bought it for the blue patina and, mostly, the...
Tomorrow will be a week since I went to that show and I still have a couple newp's not shown. They differ greatly. First is a standard 16.9g AR...
The coin commemorates the public donatives of Caracalla where he passed out money to citizens. He did this several times over his reign but the...
We all make some mistakes when we buy. It hurts some of us to see beginners making the same mistakes needlessly. One of the biggest mistakes we...
I do not disapprove of collecting sets but only buying coins that you do not want because you think you should buy to advance a set. I will not...
I really encourage reading all the posted material by Valentinian (his site and mine were once a large part of what there was online on the...
One of us sees a coin as cheap, common while another of us sees it as the one we have been looking for for years. With some regularity here one...
One has to wonder if Clio knows he has this effect or if he is just bidding so high on so many coins that he is bound to get you.
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