If removal is all that is important, one does not try so hard to smooth the change as on the reverse of this Gordian III Tomis which previously...
The device on coins of Decius is a Draco standard not a sword but it asked to be posted here anyway. There are dies with much better detail on...
I see the mount is marked 14k and there is something scratched on the clasp. Overall the style does not look like something I'd do in 14k. While...
I believe yours is RQ = Roma Quarta 4th officina. Mine is Prima or 1st. Maybe a little cleaning will clarify the reading???
Ides, et al.: When we were playing in the folks' change, Indian head cents were closer to our date than wheat cents are to today. A thrill was...
If these are in fact unsorted uncleaned coins, the first step is to sort them into groups that should be treated together as a mass setting aside...
As I see it, JA's coin is EI or the Greek numeral for 15. Delta is four: alpha one. My poor example below is gamma or three. Antioch at that...
When my wife returned to the US from a trip to London, she had a few pounds left over. The 5 and 10 note could be exchanged at the bank but their...
[ATTACH] Rome mint SPQR Optimo Principi is a less often seen but not really rare type. Mine is weak on the eagle and top but may give the idea....
As I see it there are two questions here: How do I tell a fake patina from a real one and should I remove a patina I believe to be fake? As a...
I'm sorry I offended but my experience has been considerably different from yours. When a dealer advises against a coin, I find it usually means...
Most volumes of RIC made decisions as to what gets a separate number that I might not have made but we have to remember that each volume is a...
JA makes a good point about the figures and even the ones with detail sometimes seem to be different from each other. Another good thing about...
Wow! This one still is on the horizontal oval flan but is missing the bottom of the column instead of the statue. If the striking crew had just...
Did you notice that each of the three "nice but" examples are struck on slightly oval flans which, had they blank been rotated 90 degrees, would...
I remember being disappointed in 1958 when Heinz failed to offer a new variety and change their add to Heinz 58. I was in middle school and did...
These are votives of Rome I have shown before. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I do not have the Licinius II from this series.
Mine is a different Harsha. 1089-1111AD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsha_of_Kashmir [ATTACH]
7Calbrey, it is Constantius II. The trick here is than Constantius I never used the type. You are always better off identifying reverses and...
For years I avoided late Romans with 'ordinary' reverses in the belief that they were 'beneath me' but I outgrew that and realized there is a lot...
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