By the time of Leo, quality control at the mint was bad enough that many coins that survive do not have all the details needed to be 100% certain...
Get a ruler and a coin or two and hand hold the camera at a distance that your camera fills the frame with the coins you want to shoot. Measure...
At the bottom of that page is this link which I consider as bare bones as necessary....
When new, this one looked the same color as the above but now it looks completely silver free since the 5% is masked by the 95% base metals. [ATTACH]
They were just under 5% silver and then silver washed. Most have lost all of their silver by the time they wear to VF and many seemingly...
I'll guess Severus Alexander provincial from Nicaea but with those photos I'm not more that 60% confident....
US or UK?
I did not know it so you can start posting for JA now. I am no good at Greek AE. There must be a million of them. I'll chime in when you post a...
I like them but still regret not being allowed to buy a group years ago from an estate. I bought the Romans but the guy handling the estate...
Looking at the Provincial reserves from that sale, EUR50 estimates were very common and usually exceeded vastly. Of course there is about 18%...
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/max.html Feel free to point your seller to the above. I doubt he will read it but we can always try....
https://www.pecunem.com/auction-27/lot-418 I guess it is OK to post after closing. I would not want to draw attention to a lot before fearing you...
Did you see the one on today's Pecunem sale? EUR 325 on 50 estimate (which was a joke!). The writing on the banner behind the obverse head was...
When we are in a hurry, some of us are more likely to visit new threads than ones that have been going a while and tend to have left the original...
It is only important if your interest is in making money on the coins. Collectors and students are thrilled when a new hoard turns up a second...
Marcus Aurelius 1, 4 Commodus 2, 5, 6 Antoninus Pius 3, 8 Septimius Severus 7 (193 first year Liberalitas type) 100% certain on 2-8; #1 could be...
I checked and do not have the die.
With ancients mintage numbers are not available. RIC rarities mean nothing or very little (there might be some value added from people who seek...
My first thought is that the coin was overstruck on another coin which failed to provide enough metal to fill the portrait as might be the case if...
I'll go with the three portrait count for Rome if you are cutting it to the minimum but you could split a couple of them into sub types if you...
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