Be very careful here! When you start preferring one coin over a better one just because the 'lesser' has some better detail on some minor point,...
This might be a good place to mention that there are a few rulers where left facing is more common than right (Caligula), a few where the two are...
That Flavian Amphitheater is a great example of a coin worth its ridiculously high price. A worn or corroded one without all the fine detail in...
My story is a lot like Randy's. I have a hundred or so coins that I would like to get rid of but am too lazy to market them as individuals...
I see no reason not to call it a T since that is the next letter in NIKOPOLI T ON. This is a nice coin with a clear udder bag.
Neapolis, Macedon fourree stater Gorgon head 500-480 BC and quite worn but nice, solid silver ones are not cheap...
Thank you for the ANA information. Imagine my surprise when I visited the ANA website page http://www.money.org/media/7345/RomanCoinResearch.pdf...
Just noticed that Bing's coin is exceptional in that all three birds are bold. It is hard to get bot ROMA and the top two birds on one coin.
All same dies?
These seem never to have legends on both sides of the reverse and the left side seems to be gone on more than the right. This one shows the...
http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=350979 The above text says 7 known. Who knows?
To me, Greatest Hits of Chinese would be a set of coins issued by rulers that were in some way more interesting or significant in history. For...
Also unusual is the showing of the reverse side of the shield with handle. There are Greek coins that do this as I recall but how many Roman?
Numerian has coins as Caesar and as Augustus and from several mints. Each mint has a bit different style so it is not hard to talk yourself into...
I really enjoyed sorting through and identifying the 100 cash I bought as a group but the experiment proved to me that I was not interested in...
Pius coins stayed in circulation quite a while which explains why we have so many worn ones. He issued a few really nice variations but I have to...
I use Photoshop Elements software (about $79?). The current version is 12 but I still have 10 and do not know what was added. The amount of...
The distortion is caused by the very thin flan not providing enough metal to fill both dies. You see ghosts of each side on the other and each...
I have a page on the subject. http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez1.html When trying to be cheap, it is important not to...
It is a nice example with great obverse seam showing but I prefer fourrees with core exposure that follows the patterns of the type rather than...
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