TIF is correct about the serpent tail. If you want an good snakehead you need an earlier coin without the wreath over the Chimera. The problem is...
ARADOS, PHOENICIA, 350-332 B.C. AR STATER "MA 15" over boat (date?). Obverse is a god (Ba'al?). Most show waves under the boat but mine...
Not rare and only desirable if much worse and then only to a few 'oddball' collectors. I like my Phonecian silver oval but I am odd. [ATTACH]
I have seen coins with overlapping parts and suspect this conversation was very close to real. I also suspect that some coins were rough cut by...
http://oldestcoins.reidgold.com/cherronesos.html More bad ones. I'll buy other coins for a while.
At the resolution shown here we could not tell for certain that these were not a set of 'greatest ancient coin' replicas as issued by companies...
Lets also realize that RIC was intended as a scholarly work and not a guide for collectors. Some issues even bridge the gap between volumes....
All coins beg to be touched. It is just that you can't afford to buy MS67 and turn it into EF with one cuddle session. Long ago I collected 19th...
Dies ordinarily press down on metal when it is struck but the straight down cliff in this die seems to have cut sharply and scrape as the edge...
My understanding is that they were roughly the shape of the coins. There were Greeks much earlier that were started from round balls but Romans...
I collect mostly because I enjoy what I learn in the process. It would seem that you might be able to learn as much from looking at auction...
This is a good example of why it is helpful to be on a list like this. The coin shown in TIF's group with the black background was mine and...
It is never bad to find an empress coin with a pretty face rather than the standard old lady look. [ATTACH] I didn't know she was rare. Do take...
I'd even pay several times as much for that 6.95g coin as for one without those boardwalk margins and full strike. A coin that broad with...
The other day I was making cornbread and poured batter into 12 muffin cups. I only own 12 cups so when I was finished pouring and had a little...
The majority of Roman coins were produced on what is termed 'al marco' standards. That means that a certain number were made from a certain...
[ATTACH] No, this one. Opus. The 1/4 stater (mine is 2.4g) is less impressive. The photo is nowhere near good enough to say that the coin is...
I disagree. There are coins that are certainly authentic and coins that are certainly fake but there are also those that would be sent to ten...
I would be interested in knowing if NGC has authenticated any coin of this type or if they are taking a pass on the type. I do not have one of...
Show me a coin that has large balls in the hair which is depicted in upward straight/wavy lines and I'll show you a coin I do not trust. There...
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