What is the difference between a collection and dealer stock. I know more than one dealer that prices coins with no intention of selling but will...
Steve's is a perfect example of the main problem with these. It is a great specimen but still has striking weakness in the mintmark and the chest...
In my price bracket most choices are strange, worn or plated. So flat that there was no metal to fill the die: [ATTACH] Just worn:[ATTACH]...
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While I agree there are many interesting coins in the range, I am having trouble figuring out what 'look' covers that time period. By the 1750's...
The Pax is a full sized antoninianus. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I have more sailors on deck.
Uncirculated and mint are not terms that get used with ancients by traditionalists like me. The coin is well struck, most were not, and...
Style, lack of mintmark, appearance of metal not consistent with silver coins of the period, reverse inappropriate for a living Augusta, letter...
YOC is correct regarding the SMHA. In this case the gamma is a coded weight standard but exactly how the code works, I do not understand. On...
I don't like it. I'd need to hear assessments from a bunch of other people who specialize in the period before I become a believer.
My Siscia is 4.2g and the two Aquileia are 4.6 and 4.7 which are closer to the theoretical 1/72 pound.
Steve, I don't know exactly where you are but I did find that Thompson, Manitoba, is only 2532 km from me so you can start now and get here in...
My newest coin is another falling horseman only a little different from another I have but appealing enough to me to add it rather than replace an...
I do not know what the people of Mende called the coin. It may have been what the Athenians of the same period called their similarly sized coins...
http://www.classicalcoins.com/flans1.html This is the first of 8 pages on the subject but those in a hurry may want to jump to pages 6,7 and 8.
One thing I like about CT is that I regularly learn things. I have owned the 1d used in my photo for over 30 years and never knew it was a...
Basically the question is whether you want to spend $100 on certification and registered postage to find out if you have a $20000 coin. The...
When time allows, I'd love to see them.
It is not the left facing alone. It is the spear. I don't have a Maximianus but in January I paid $26.49 postpaid for this left facing...
I accessed what photos I could find and it does seem that the 1d has a leafless stem just right of the leaf #1 on my drawing. I guess that means...
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