We all have to learn not to worry about spellings when dealing with languages both modern and ancient with their own rules and alphabets. Italian...
Once upon a time all a dealer had to do was write up a list of coins and open the mail that brought in bids. A few still do business that way but...
True but I believe they were pretty good at weighing coin flans so you can tell a ragged flan from a post mint damaged one by weight. Mine is...
The other lesser option is small silver like this 0.7g litra of Gela (465-450 BC). Even these are not cheap but come in under the big silver....
http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=532354 In the case of this coin, Constantinople placed an officina number right of the E while the other...
The cent is an important part to me. I can not accept my buying a book or movie ticket that puts cash in the pockets of criminals telling their...
They are not. However you can always find someone willing to charge you more. Less takes more looking.
These were the even smaller replacements for the last of the junky Falling Horsemen. I don't have a Constantinople but here are some others:...
chrsmat71's coin is also a nice example of an upgrade model you don't see every day. Research it and find the ID.
Steve; Little would I wish to interrupt your research on the great little coin but there is an error in your listing information which you may...
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0786868643/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&sr=&qid= I mentioned the availability of this...
What is 'rare'? Is it just a number or is there more to it than that?
I believe we both have coins that we do not know to be duplicated elsewhere but we also know that Randy will be happy to downgrade us. There are...
To me the set here is less interesting than the fact that someone (a dealer I have purchased from in the past) assembled it and that they are...
This is a fine example of what we get out of die work. Things were changing fast at the mint toward the end of 193 and the start of 194. There...
Resigned to it might be better than good.... Mine is not nearly as nice but I have had it since 1999 when it was a much more rare type. I had my...
My two main hobbies are coins and photography so my avatar is a self portrait of me taking a coin photo. The camera was placed in the position of...
I forgot to mention: Weighing every coin would be called 'al pezzo'.
I do not recall calling these by that name. Stannard Scoops strike me as better honoring the man whose article described the how and why of the...
Nice coin. I do not agree with the grading of the surface at 3/5 since a lot of the 'problem' is crystallization which I do not find nearly as...
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