While $275 seems high, this is a very pretty brockage compared to most including Steve's with the incuse face off flan. One advantage of...
I avoided Septimius since the Eastern cutters were so original in their spelling. It amazes me how many different dies contained the same errors...
Great coin! That is new to me. I see that Berk does say that but I'd like to see the process behind that reevaluation. I can't say I accept it...
As mentioned in another thread, Ancient coins frequently show minor errors that would make them very desirable by the standards of modern...
I love errors on ancients but, while modern varieties may be tiny little variations, an ancient error really has to be spectacular before it stops...
While part of it could be the photo, I prefer #1 by a large factor.
I almost bid on that last one but am glad I did not since it went to a good home. The Phoenix is less common that the other FTR types because it...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Hieron II of Syracuse, being the good Greek that he was, spelled his name beginning with an I since the Greeks did not see...
Perhaps I and J should go together as they did in Latin.
Yes. There is also an as with the rudder on globe reverse from this same year with 38 expressed the same way. Titus issued coins in his ninth...
Randy's list shows Steve's symbol as #3.
As I understand it, the theory is the letters were local to Siscia before Roman times but I am not sure if that language survives today. That...
Update/retraction: Looking again I am suspecting that the OP coin is not showing the asterisk/star following the SIS but is also what RIC calls a...
Yes.
Nice coin but I am confused by the quote above moved in from the Probus post. RIC lists your coin as #231 on page 366 of volume VIII and assigns...
Unfortunately way too many dealers do not own or use the reference works they quote but find a similar coin somewhere and copy the information...
I believe the Greeks also used the term 'When turtles fly' but have never seen a coin to illustrate it. Help, anyone?
Many of the name coin dealers throw around would surprise the guys that issued them. Athens had a system including the name hemitartemorion for...
I don't need a GIF but am glad you saw the problem would be telling what was underneath. Compared to his other ...and their Values books, I like...
Extremely nice coin but I'd call it an 1865 not 1866. Sear notes that these are often overstruck on earlier folles but he goes on to confuse...
Separate names with a comma.
