That is a great coin with very strong detail inside the shield. I always liked this issue because of the idea of decorating the back side of the...
This might have been a good place for the auction house to come clean and describe the coin as a tooled space filler but an opportunity to get a...
Until people with money (that does not include Bing and I stop paying more for a tooled coin than they would for that same coin before it was...
Yes, they sure had nice coins but not too many of them to use many dies.
What is the mint for Steve's ship coin? The style reminds me more of the recently posted super high grade sestertii than it does of the other...
Four of my favorite Provincials: Caesarea AR drachm as Caesar 198 AD [ATTACH] Anchialus, celebrating his wedding games at that city, I believe...
My Carinus (year three, Nike walking right) suffers from being short on flan near the important part of the legend (IN) which separates it from...
This Diocletian is an excellent example of the ise of a dot for the O in his name. Not all his coins did that but the ones that do often throw...
JA, I would have paid $13 for sure and see nothing that worries me in the photo. I've been wrong but this looks like a keeper. The other option...
According to my doctor, 'virgin' olive oil is pressed but never heated. Heating the mash and pressing again gives the lower grades which are more...
I know more than one dealer whose price structure is based on how bad they dislike the coin. If they don't want to sell it, they ask 20x what...
The worst clashers worked under Claudius II. They were working at great speed.
[ATTACH] Cherson, Basil I cast AE16 867-869AD
Notice the divot on the reverse of the Furius under the horses. It was hit with a point that raised a round mound at the end of the gouge. Of...
Both are definitely Diocletian as proposed above. The year two coin has the longer legend with title and more full name before starting with the...
I have a feeling that we have a terminology problem here. In the US 'distilled' water of the lowest grade but that works for coins is 89 cents a...
Concluding the reports of my Baltimore show finds are two Republicans I did not have before. From 102 BC is a denarius of C.Fabius showing Cybele...
I was surprised when I looked this up in RIC to discover it was a common coin because I do not recall seeing it before. As is so often the case,...
The first is fourree. The third has as good a face as I have seen but the flan is too small. Nice ones of these are hard to find. However there...
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