Martin's coin is a great example of a type used at both Laodicea and Rome. In this case his Laodicea style coin is rare and the Rome version is...
All I would really ask if that those who buy slabbed coins get something for their money. There is currently on eBay an Athenian New Style tet...
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[ATTACH] The legend reads BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY / EYEPΓETOY but your coin lost all the Basileus. There are examples with full legend but they are...
I only have two. One is reasonably nice while the other is green AE. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Septimius had several horse types. I don't have the...
[ATTACH] Mine may be the most worn of the group but is proud to say 1.7g. Checking the common sources, they seem to range from 1.4 to 2.2g which...
When they were posted on CT separately, several of us said they were fakes. Posting them all together does not improve them. They are fakes....
My biggest SA is AE33 from Antioch Pisidia. [ATTACH]
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/f06.html Theirs is prettier but mine calls out for your pity.
Usually it is best to have one coin per post but these all sharing the same reverse suggesting they are a set together could have been posted...
Flattening on the reverse rim suggests the item was removed from a mount. I suspect it was a replica made to be used in jewelry since the style...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I do not have a stater but show two drachms of what I understood to be the three types. First and oldest is the claw; second...
I believe this is a factor of a fact in the hobby. We have beginners who do not want beginners' coins but come into the hobby with a lot of money...
http://www.pbase.com/dougsmit/meteorites me too also Anyone have a CHELYABINSK?
The fact that the coin sold in 2006 from CNG also makes the guy's backstory about his family owning the coin support the show being scripted fact...
Note it is an obverse die link to the Agrippina reverse at the bottom of that same post.
Listed at 3.62g shoots the possibility of it being plated. The CNG image looks less porous than the TV image did but the difference between $2.6k...
Fourree TP's are common as are denarii of all of the Julio Claudians. The interesting part of the Indian is that the metal is good but no one...
The coin on season 8 episode 70 (In the Doghouse) was a denarius of Caligula with the OB CIVES SERVATOS in wreath reverse. Ordinarily this is one...
TV or the real world, we are fooling ourselves if we put any stock in the concept of what something is 'worth'. A coin, a house, a car, the work...
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