I see it as year 7. When the top of the letter is curved over it is a 6. Five is open top u and was not used by Justin II according to the Sear...
What if the terms of the peace included the switch to chicken as a punishment for being defeated? I doubt all those factories making trinkets...
The links show a source but I suggest you shop around for books. Some sellers charge too much. Buy used, read until they fall apart. These are...
They were defeated and no longer were a naval power.
Observation: High end dealers that regularly sell owls of Athens in EF seem to have trouble finding high grade sea turtles. Many are graded VF...
But, Steve, you have at least part of all six appendages. I suspect AJ will have trouble finding a Sea Turtle as nice as his Land Tortoise but if...
I have not seen it. I do find it listed as a reprint of a 1907 original so I would expect it to be available online a lot cheaper than the...
DNG: Post a picture of your coin and we will try to help. As stated in my page linked higher in this thread, there are many of these and there...
You have the rare south end of a northbound turtle variety. You have three of the six important appendages but most people prefer the other...
I have seen bronze coins plated for added appeal to collectors but usually they use nice ones. Filing a spot on the edge might reveal copper. It...
There are those who see it that way. They would rather see the coins destroyed than have them pass into hands that would promote interest and...
It is simple. All ancient coins are looted. History belongs only to the academic boys' club. Private students are incapable of making any...
[IMG] My favorite is the group I have from the Bavarian Collection as explained on my page: http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac16.html
A few years back there was a thread pointing out that an inordinate number of people interested in physics were also collectors of ancient coins....
I have quite a variety of magnifiers including the natural ones that being nearsighted provides. My favorite is a pair of $1 (from Dollar Tree)...
I bought Starr years ago but was very disappointed that it only covered coins I could not afford and stopped before the popular Classical owls....
http://www.amuseum.org/book/page5.html Another view calls the smaller coins that I might call lepta "half prutah"....
Note that Race's as is from the same date as the denarius. Tiberius is listed as TI CAESAR AVGVST F IMPERAT.
Or, as usually seems to be my case, getting tired of laying low and ending up bidding to much for a coin. Prey, predator, priceless, overpriced.
I agree with the above. I'm not so agreeable with this part. I see the terms used more interchangeably with prutah being any big coin and lepton...
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