You missed the point. XXI is not a mark of value of the coin but of the ratio of silver just as you suggest. The Romans did not do percentages...
Trivia: What do you do when you want half of a coin? Cut it in half. What do you do if you want half of a cash strung on a string through a...
Workshop ordinal number systems ran into problems when two words needed started with the same letter. Secundus (2) got the S so Sextus (6) had...
Seeing the great Postumus, I am struck with its beauty but what I'd really like to know is why someone put a hole and a half in the location the...
Just to bring this thread down to reality. This one is a cast fake. Why would someone fake such a cheap coin? I don't know but this is...
There have been a lot of the Wang Mang hou quan on the market lately. Frank Robinson was selling them in multiples but I don't recall the...
Remark? No. We just like showing coins. These also come without Victory but with a long, eagle tipped scepter. Probus always has a lot of...
To me 4/5, 4/5 is not so bad as long as the grade was VG or aF. With a coin this worn, it is hard to read the quality of the strike.
Egyptian years began at the end of August (29th?) and an emperor began his second year on that date even if he had only been in power a day before...
There are two kinds of 'for profit' dealers. One wants you to be a customer of his and of his heirs; the other wants what he can get now and may...
No. I just like the term that describes the situation better than 'lightly smoothed'.
I propose a new add-on to grades on slabs. Let us now see Choice XF 5/5 3/5 MM. Question: If one tools an honest 3/5 into a 5/5 appearance does...
Famous last words. If someone says this to you and you ever deal with them again, I have zero sympathy for you. If there is one thing that needs...
I'll not pay you as much but I'll say thanks really nicely.
It is a wonderful coin. One can only wonder where it spent 2000 years with so little change from the day it was made.
Next show is March. I may skip it as too soon. Tired. Mat: Being cut down suggests the coin is overstruck on something but it shows nothing....
Nice coin I would have bought it if it were not a JQA. The portrait style is exceptional. JQA had many nice coins and many like ours. I regret...
The Baltimore show provided me with five late Romans of which four are at least half decent. I just buy these because I am an addict and did not...
AJ's CDC is a nice one and big. The nice thing about that fall is that many of the interesting characteristics show on small specimens as well as...
The problem I'm seeing is every time Steve buys another on, I can't remember what I showed last time so I'm probably showing the same AP...
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