I am rolling on the floor here after reading the posts that followed this one. Perhaps you alone know why but you did say it was not yours. I...
Very nice
I see both as post reform radiates.
My guess is a Spanish colonial cob 2 reales from the days of treasure ships but we need a photo to have any real chance to help....
One snake on a plain staff is the sign of Aesclepius. Two snakes on a staff usually with wings is the device of Hermes/Mercury we call a...
Patina is a natural surface coating that develops on coins buried in the earth for a thousand years which is valued by collectors and can not be...
At the Baltimore show a dealer had a denarius of Gnaius Gellius (same type as above) with perfect obverse centering and good looking reverse...
Math problem: [ATTACH]+[ATTACH]= I like all three but you might understand why I wanted the new one.
My advice has always been to spend on coins only money you might have spent going out to eat at a restaurant. The next day you can still enjoy...
[ATTACH] Yes, sir! Mine is not EF but it wasn't $100 either.
I think I would have trouble selling it immediately for what I paid. I won't be finding out. It all averages out in the long run but some coins...
The Baltimore show also produced these three coins I found appealing. Of the three my favorite is this Crispus from Rome with Roma reverse and...
PLON from CNG 35 lot 1027. I have said several times that I do not understand why so many English speaking collectors seem addicted to London...
None of the lots strike me as worth anything. My hobby is collecting coins. These devices are for mad scientists whose hobby is torturing coins...
Hint: Can the coin with a weak mintmark be assigned to a mint? Does that make a difference? The coin I left behind was asking 4X the price but...
Today was a very big day for me with the coin show in Baltimore (3 hours away). I spent way more that planned and even got a couple nice coins....
This is a 211 AD coin showing how quickly Caracalla started looking mean after Septimius died. Certainly he would get worse but this is quite a...
The coin is a denarius issued by Gnaius Gellius c.138BC showing a head of Roma in a wreath on the obverse with denomination mark X (for denarius=...
I agree. The need to touch is satisfied by $20 coins. My recent moving of my photos to the Nook has proven very satisfying to me as well since I...
[ATTACH] I just realized that my best lifetime Augustus portrait coin is probably this half a croc. When it comes to a posthumous portrait, my...
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