I believe your last one is the ancient equivalent of burnished surfaces. The fields are stippled but the tops of the letters are smooth. There...
I would love to see one of these in mint state well struck on a large flan but I am pretty sure they did not make any of those.
This thread is a bit old but I have little additional to say so I will revive it. My new coin is a Tye 2 Spalapati Deva from the period before...
I see I'm less than half a Steve with only 3995 likes but I do understand why. At the moment I would have trouble being sure of the top ten but...
This past Sunday the US TV show (CBS) 60 Minutes reran its piece on fake paintings by a particularly skilled worker who recently served a very...
I believe that is a pretty safe 'Yes'. The best workers seem to have worked for the current ruler with 'others' getting lesser staff. I'm sure...
Yes, knowing it is the quarter makes it look a lot better.
The Romans had such a love of nicknames that we now consider that name part of the official name. The last of three names, the cognomen,...
We have to ask why the flan is so irregular. I sure would like to examine the edge but the slab took care of that. The coin dates to the same...
Neither do I but I will point out that the beard is not an on/off matter but there are dies that show it progressing downward. This one is longer...
I do like that silver. The Soter Megas strikes me as a 12 ray Taxila which has some surface and strike problems. Am I missing something? The...
This 4/3 difference is supposed to be indicative of the Kapisa mint Mitchiner 2983. The majority of the Soter Megas coins seen are Taxila mint...
We do not have to leave Roman Imperials to find areas unpopular enough that they can be collected by those of us glad to have less competition. I...
This one is beyond me. It does seem odd, however that the OP listing reads like something copied from a catalog listing but I can not find...
I have no idea about the denominations of the Syracuse bronze. The Magna Gracia site shows the two as overlapping. Sear calls the type trias and...
My two hemidrachms are quite different from each other. The earlier (394-387 BC?) has no magistrate name but the city name PODION weakly above...
My die cutter license is a matter that truly changed my life. I refer to the question of whether there were stirrups shown on a few coins of...
Both are nice coins. For some reason your bronze reveres reminds me of a maple leaf.
I agree with JA on all points.
How many coins have you seen that you want costing $1? $5? $10? The kind of lot you are more likely to come out of with a profit is probably...
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