...and more clear than mine. Today we have trouble recognizing head gear with ear flaps, a finial and Ibex horn. [ATTACH] These come with...
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Not I. It is the kind of coin that most collectors would shun but that I'd be happy to have. Remember that RIC rarities are huge jokes anyway....
I'm part way through the Bruce McNall autobiography now and will probably review it when finished but so far the outstanding part is the...
I agree but only when dealing with coins that are not easily available elsewhere. I have not been seeing this class of rarity but rather a class...
I was in a waiting room today and read a very short piece in August 2014 National Geographic about the discovery of a 'contract' document in which...
The fact that you are continuing to patronize houses that do these things means that they are acceptable practices in your eyes. There are...
My blackest silver is Caracalla from Caesarea. [ATTACH] In bronze it is Magnentius. [ATTACH]
There is something to be learned here. This is a poor fake. A dealer that did not realize it was fake is not a good source for ancients due to...
[ATTACH] Pescennius Niger, Antioch, BONI EVINTVS, otherwise unseen by me and was my first coin of this ruler. [ATTACH] Pescennius Niger,...
I agree. I went on VCoins and saw a couple interesting things to the point of this thread but no coins I wanted to buy. There are a few coins of...
Nice one! Notice JBG's coin is Ulpian while the OP coin is Faustinian making it slightly later in date. Faustinian was out before Geta became...
Experts will tell you that fourrees were never made at the mint or 'semi officially'. They will also tell you that the better styled fourrees...
Rather than 'Last Ancient', I would call this 'First Byzantine'. My candidate for last of the old style 5th century Romans is the 1 nummus pre...
I have posted before this link to a friend's page listing the magistrates from Marcianopolis and other cities of the region which allow...
Any of these that has that much clothing detail is special.
One more: Some errors are just variations on the normal. This coin left three letters out of the obverse legend but each was the last letter in...
Here are a few more blunders that are just a bit different (and were in the coins that got repackaged tonight). What is wrong with this one?...
To me, the interesting part of the OP coin is that it varies from the norm of two figure types. Usually one of the figures is the emperor...
Caracalla [ATTACH]
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