I agree with Bing.
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/voc.html I wrote the above series of pages with the intent of helping beginners 'get' the language of...
Thank you TIF! The link will explain several different methods. The common one is like wrapping a chocolate disk in aluminum foil and then...
Cool, yes, fourree ---- I can't tell from the photo. I will point out that I bought the coin below from NFA (Bruce McNall who owned the LA Kings)...
There is no doubt that the write up is spot on but after you made the 1..2..3.. fourree line I found it hard to believe you let the fourree fifth...
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.30000104992965;view=1up;seq=7 If you do not know a lot about fourrees and want to the 250 pages...
I have not seen a fourree fifth before.
The tet is Trajan Decius a century and a half later than the Trajan of your other two coins. There are tets of the first Trajan which you might...
I still prefer the explanation that the unit of account was the sestertium which was short for millia sestertiorum and that the numbers you see as...
I agree this is a good question and one I do not understand. I wonder sometimes if the sestertius was convenient as a measure because it was...
For the record we might mention that Alexandria holding a bust of Serapis is a type of the last period tetradrachms. This Maximianus year one was...
Many collectors want just a single coin of each emperor and, to many, it seems any coin will do. I am of the opinion that there are some reverses...
That is a nice type and clash worthy of note. I recently showed my new Mars so here I'll tack on the old version. The interesting part of MARTI...
My face and most of my coins have more 'character' than the rich and famous. I that good? The monogram obverse bottom appears to repeat the name...
I did not have a cow/calf of Apollonia so I bid on one online. Then I went to a show and saw another which I bought being unsure of the result of...
I'd say yours is a $50 obverse and a $20 reverse (I am not impressed by flat strikes) but that does not mean it is a $70 coin. For $100, you...
There is a great tragedy in the coins of Gallienus. The best ones are the zoo series but they tend to be poor metal, poorly struck and raggedy if...
These are common coins and this is a middle of the road specimen with weak strike on the reverse. That should mean it carries a low price. It is...
Indian imitation of the Tribute Penny type. These are in good silver and believed to have been made after Nero debased the denarius making Indian...
I use as a guide how I feel the evening I get home after buying a coin at a show. Some of these are feel goods fitting my desire to have a lot of...
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