This has come up before. The decision was not then and is not now ours to make. The owners like it the way it is.
Wear seems mostly on edges and high points. Ancient dealers at Baltimore were a bit odd. Relatively few of them had packed up and left by 3PM...
I am not from the British Isles but find Carausius a very interesting subject. His coins include some very interesting types and a lot of junk....
The Baltimore show Saturday turned up 14 new (to me) old coins. The newest in both senses of the word is something I have really wanted and next...
Is there a chance that the coin was struck on two stacked flans fused together by the pressure of striking? I don't understand the way the...
Unfortunately for the reputation of the hobby, too many coin collectors seem to have only one question about their coin: "How much is it worth?"...
I disagree with the above and believe the use of legend stamps was still in the future by the time of Quintillius. They were use in medieval...
There is absolutely no suggestion I support more than this. If we could go one step further and separate out things made to be collected and sold...
Much of that is what is covered by my page but you really need the Tye book to get them all.
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Of the many magnificent coins AJ has shared with us, this obol is tops on my list. There are many variations on the eagle theme from Akragas but...
Why? Because: It is easier to complain than to take this simple labeling step that would make it easier to include or exclude posted topics. I...
Speaking as a 4.8x who just returned from Baltimore with three new tets and a drachm, I thik you may have been barking up the right tree with the...
This is an unfortunate truth. Would you expect it to be otherwise? We should consider that one reason photographers pay models a lot of money is...
Lesson one: Samanta Deva has characters over the hump of the bull that looks like H4 (open top 4). Spalapati Deva has the H but the next two...
While I agree that reverse is great, I like the the obverse portrait which is not at all bad compared to the Claudius II coins I have seen. I...
The surfaces seem mint state.
See Emmitt page 77 or Sayles volume IV page 101. The best of these are low enough grade not to be all that graphic. You see a guy hanging in a...
This is an as from an earlier scene of liberality while Commodus was still Caesar. [ATTACH]
http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=224493 It was a nice coin before the cleaners got to it. It may look better again in a few decades....
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