Nicer than mine for sure but I notice that even mine has retained silver so that issue must have been coated better than most. Your horseman is...
The shop I visited today was 700 miles from home. Vancouver makes that look tiny. Unless my mother-in-law moves, I doubt I will ever find out....
The Tacitus seems to partake of the Caracalla (original) meaning so when did the switch occur?
Just about exactly 50 years after I first bought an ancient in a coin store in Indianapolis, I returned to the same town but a different store...
The one I failed to understand was the Guinea - a gold coin worth a shilling more than a Sovereign or 21 shillings. Of course we did have groats...
This coin is great in many ways. Certainly the legend variation is enough but you have to love that swollen nose portrait. Since we are...
Your Philip sestertius is a great example but am I wrong that Berk's coin was a silver? I preferred the animals of the series and never found a...
Your triobol is much nicer than my junker but look at my 3/4 obol. The owl flew off! :confused: I have obols and hemiobols but would really...
Relating to another thread: Check out the Licinius that made the Berk 100 list. I might have picked one of the father and son dual portraits but...
When you get the book count how many coins came from Greek Italy and Sicily. I'm not saying that is wrong.
BTW, that incuse rooster is a top notch coin for any top list!
This will be only an approximation for most of us since some of his choices are super specific (Kimon dekadrachm, Euainatos dekadrachm) while some...
http://www.tulane.edu/~august/handouts/601ccdom.htm see the third major head for more
The XIIS stands for 12 1/2 denarii of account value of the coin. It was issued when Licinius revalued the standard size coin from 25 to 12 1/2....
I agree we each have to define 'greatest' before we can start picking coins but we also need to decide what we consider to be important or even...
While I hate to show my Eurocentric bias, I have to admit that I do not know a single coin of Asian origin that belongs in this group when...
My favorite animal coin and the coin I know better than ever even to put on my want list is #8. Look it up. I admit to considering Mr. Berk a...
My AE31 wolf is from Ninica Claudiopolis in Cilicia under Maximinus I. It is just one of many Provincial uses of this type. [ATTACH] Mine is not...
I see Amazon is now asking $25.35 US but it was $19.77 when I bought it in 2011. Perhaps it will be a good investment.
I own the book and liked many things about it although my definition of 100 Greatest would only include about half of the HJB selections. Major...
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