The bottom line is whether we value the coins for what they are or for what they are worth (to paraphrase the Frank Robinson quote). I like...
In the favorite phrase from middle schoolers I have known: I don't know.
I think my most aged sestertius is this Maesa with double chin. [ATTACH]
Sorry, I'll try to keep it down.
From Wikipedia (Button): "Buttons made from seashell were used in the Indus Valley Civilization for ornamental purposes by 2000 BCE.[6] Some...
At the risk of getting back to coins: Who was the oldest Roman woman to have coins issued? Was it common for women to look their age on coins?
Someone who couldn't have one like this? [ATTACH]
Early Aes Grave from various places had various types but the standard set (prow reverse) from Rome was Janus, Saturn, Minerva, Hercules, Mercury...
Copied from the link posted above by Anoob (3/4 down page): AE chalkous, Chach c. first half of 1st. Century Weight:1.61 gm., Diam:14 mm., Die...
If you want to see what US coins could have been had it been politically correct for those in power to issue coins related to current events or...
I got mine in 1988. It weighs .74g. Many of these are quite unround but the OP coin looks chipped. When it arrives, you might look at the edges...
I have never been clear on the relationship between Baktrian Hermaios and the Kushans. There are even barbarous intermediates that also confuse...
Hammered is just a term for coins made in the old way struck with dies brought together without modern technology. We never call ancients...
Milled 6d 1567 [ATTACH] doublestruck 3d 1578 [ATTACH]
I still have trouble accepting the reading of the Greek letters as Phroro which adds a letter from what I see as PhORO. My word is Greek for...
Saturn is on a semis.
I would recommend a book Early World Coins & Early Weight Standards by Robert Tye. The book has a few Greek and Roman as well as Eastern, Indian,...
This temple appears in several Probus versions. I have seen fewer of the 'ordinary' busts than of the fancy left facing ones but do not know if...
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez3.html The above shows the background technique. Over time, I have posted way too many...
Does this mean that it is now OK for all of us to post our coins for sale in this section of CT? I agree and will point out that a common...
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