Yes, it is a very common type but, IMHO, a very nice one with the two patron gods of Diocletian and Maximianus. There are many high grade, well...
The 10% minimum is mainly to keep people from bidding a dollar or a cent over the standing bid just to see whether there is a higher bid in play....
That is a very nice specimen.
I saw that listing. It suggested that you might even find gold in the roll, right???:woot:
I'm having trouble imagining a dealer putting up a mixed lot of 18 that includes a couple of those coins but it is still a nice lot. There are...
Magnificent! If the die was shared by the mints, how is it known that there were two mints or how is it shown that one of the mints did not...
Tonight I finished writing my pages on my 99 and 1/2 favorite ancient coins. I now start on the proofreading. That is always the hard part. I...
Byzantines are harder to price because most of the real rarities in the series are pug-ugly. Beginners may see a rare ruler or variety and be...
I don't know enough to talk but I do have two from Kyrene to show. The little bronze has three plants base to base. There are also coins showing...
I see that if you want Augustus, there are many images. I was interested in Pescennius Niger when I read this thread so I searched for him and...
Did I miss it or is this entirely without illustrations?
There are many, many minor variations of the Sol reverse Constantine coin including the presence or placement of a captive, mint cities and...
Gold and other shiny coins can pick up reflections from things well away from the photo site. The color being off in that first photo was why the...
The second photo is pretty close on my monitor but I don't see purple.
Modern collectors really place too much emphasis on mintage numbers (says the ancient collector). It is not a question of how many were made but...
I would really prefer it if the software had a feature such as the current 'Like' button that would be used by folks to indicate 'nice coin' but...
Small Greek must not be as popular as I had thought. Several of the Pecunem lots closed unsold today but their estimates were pretty steep on the...
The whole point of Wikipedia is that when someone posts something wrong, someone else posts a correction to it. They occasionally have to mediate...
Recent posts suggest confusion on why there are so many denominations from so many places and we just don't know how to make sense of them. I say...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coins_of_Upper_Canada The above Wikipedia article includes the statement that the 1857 issue of the Bank of Upper...
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