When dealing with things 2000 years old from places occupied by a wide variety of cultures, anything is possible. Over the years I have heard...
http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=644579 Check this one: Nice style, nice condition and estimated by a good seller at 400 Euros. Realized...
[ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH][ATTACH] Plain chair legs, fancy chair legs, fourree (but nice style), Indian copy Tribute Pennies were the last common...
I will never forget seeing (years ago) a bag containing at least 1000 Tribute Pennies owned by a wholesale dealer. All were half decent coins....
The game changed over three pages. As originally described, there is no 'best' but just 'all important' coins. The game plan as described is...
Few people who have collected for a short while have any idea just how many different coins are out there and how rarely some types come to...
The catalogs were intended to sell coins not to serve as easy references over twenty years later. As a result it can be hard to find coins that...
I was not aware of this resource! I thought CNG only posted their catalogs from the 2000's. Be sure to view the last of the CNA XIII listings...
Notice these are of an alloy that often shows columnar crystallization traces (or full crackling as on Bing's). I see enough on the OP coin that...
While there are a lot of nice Alexandrian coins on Wildwinds, those really interested might want to seek a used copy of CNG sale catalogs 12 and...
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Thank you Dionysos. Everyone note how the coins are carefully arranged to hide the stamp of Westaire Reproductions Limited, the leading UK maker...
The Decentius looks like RIC 170 page 216 volume VIII. It is a scarce coin a bit muddled here by double striking making the legends hard to read....
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/uncleaned.html See #5 on the above page. I never did a whole page on them.
Do the ancients by any chance have a small stamp WRL on them?
I wish I had thought of posting Philips for this thread. Of the fathers and sons, there are only a couple that shared legends and types to the...
Hartill 22.72 - Kaifeng, Henan mint with mint name 'He' bilingual Manchu and Chinese on reverse.
Your coin and photos are much better than mine! I can never make the crab show clearly. [ATTACH]
Doug is without electric power and only gets to visit WiFi for short periods so some posts may get overlooked. I have wasted more time trying to...
This is a very nice example of a very interesting type well covered in this thread. I assume you realize the significance of Iς or 16 in Greek...
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