Do the research and see which of us is right. Find an identifiable $10 Imperial lifetime Augustus portrait. Find a $50 one in any grade. I did...
I'm a fan of more legends but I suspect this is about what you get for under $100. Lifetime portrait bronzes of Augustus are not common. You see...
Please don't quote links to my pages on ancients.info. They are supposed to be taking those pages down and I stopped updating them long ago. If...
I have 2 1/2 coins enroute and just found out today that there will be a charter bus to the Baltimore coin show March 16. Like Steve, I'm all...
I do like them. Having a crocodile is enough to make a coin a little special but chaining him to a tree adds something as do the back to back...
Cities honored with full status as Colonies were honored by the privilege of issuing coins with Latin Legends. Early coin catalogs often listed...
That coin is worth twice the price of any of the Republicans you have shown from this group. It has a little wear on the high points but is...
It is no joke and it hurts no one more than me. I get interested in something a bit obscure; I write a page on it that gets someone else...
That is why the crocodile is chained to the palm. The coin is a tribute to General Agrippa and the men who served with him in the defeat of...
If you search "nemausus" on VCoins you will find Gil's reserved coin and many others of this type including one right next to his for $1500. The...
My recent posts on this coin and the page on them I have been writing mainly centers on one feature of the issue: They are a mess. Very few of...
I wonder if he bought it because he knew it was part of the set including the famous triple portrait coins where Carausius tried to equate himself...
I have not seen better for the price in recent days.
[ATTACH] Titus denarius Eastern mint o under bust ex Mabbot sale Titus has a range of bulls and cows. Some look placid and slender while others...
[ATTACH] Sicily, Syracuse AR Tetradrachm 439-420 B.C. Diameter: 24 mm Weight: 16.7 grams Obverse: Charioteer driving quadriga right; above, Nike...
It is important not to look at asking prices when determining a market but at realized final sales. I do not buy high end coins and CNG seems to...
Regarding sestertius: I think this may relate to an ancient tendency to see things differently than we do. For example we are coming into the...
Sestertius means half of the third. We would say two and a half. The denarius was originally ten asses so a quarter denarius was two and a half...
Excellent coin, excellent photo (although I really prefer a neutral background). I like the idea of placing the ID text on the image but each...
Four Roman Provincials: [ATTACH] Marcus Aurelius as Caesar AE drachm Alexandria [ATTACH] Septimius Severus AE Hadrianopolis [ATTACH] Septimius...
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