Great coin. At first glance I thought it was missing one letter on the reverse but then I saw what I consider to be a very cool feature. The A...
It would also be good to handle this coin carefully and not drop it on a hard surface. Such things have been known to break in half. I agree...
Rightfully so! That is a very nice coin.
Yes, it can. Burial in soil can leech away metal and reduce weight. I also believe that some of the Caracalla Caesar coins were light to start...
Vespasian [ATTACH] Titus [ATTACH]
There are others but I'd bet nowhere near the whole alphabet. I have an A from Argos and do not have the sigma from Sikyon. Others? [ATTACH]
With the exception of the Flavian emperors mints that used a city abbreviation, most early branch mints are separated by style or by a code mark...
There are several reasons to like Postumus. He has an intersting face and more than one portrait style. Some of the reverses are different from...
I really enjoy the Aurelius and Verus restitution of the Antony legionary type. I get a kick out of the necessity to change the obverse legend...
Not being home with my books makes me unsure what to make of the date range but I wonder if it is not based on the time he was Consul III rather...
[ATTACH] I find a couple of interesting comparisons between our coins. Your ship sails right; mine left. Yours has the square sail unfurled...
I do not like the look and would keep searching for a match in the fake resources.
Very nice specimen! Mine is only .4g but has one dolphin. Defective? It seems too heavy to be half of yours. Do you have a reference? I am...
Comparing the linked coin and the photo from Collect 89 really makes a good point about our hobby. One has surface problems and an indistinct...
Several years ago I bought a two volume set of the 1834 work Roman Coins by J.W. Akerman (not a book you really need). While not signed it has a...
This is one I feel that I need due to the Islamic allowable portrait. Thanks for posting it.
Just to get this back a few centuries, coin collectors can study word spacing (or the lack of it) on Roman coins. When you took Latin I, the...
A question for the grammar police among us: Where do you stand on the English subjunctive? I was taught it was required when appropriate but...
I can agree with all the points about selling save one if I first accept that the point of owning a coin is to make a profit or, at least, lose...
Perhaps, as long as the coins sold mean nothing to you beyond their cash value. What I recall learning is how hard it can be to replace a coin...
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