Listed grades are a bit high. The coins have eye appeal but wear is wear and the prices seem to overlook that. These are coins for those who...
Demand is low for such coins so I'd expect a dealer to sell them for whatever price he considers his lowest to cover the nuisance value of the...
The coins are Kushan bronzes of various rulers of roughly the 2nd century AD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushan_Empire Thesy are common in poor...
[ATTACH] I realize the British Museum has thousands of better coins not on display but it still hurts when they feel the best use for a group of...
I have seen it called a dot surrounded by arrows and crescents but have no idea of its meaning.
I do not believe the shape has anything to do with date. Mitchiner shows round coins from the archaic period (500's BC) as well as from...
I'm no specialist here but my guess is Samprati (Mauryan) 224-215 BC or 216-207 BC (depending on which king list you believe). Note that the same...
[ATTACH] The good news is this is a 1578 QE1 hammered 3d but the bad news is the double striking that destroyed half of the legends. It is my...
My point was that if you are worried about having to have expensive Nike types you are no better off staying with Romans since there are expensive...
I suggest everyone get over the concept of having a complete set of anything ancient. In the case of Victory, Jotapian will hang you up a while...
What I find interesting is how few modern eagles are real birds as opposed to heraldic devices. I know there are some real birds (parents at the...
So many coins made my eagles hungry. Ancient eagles ate rabbits, snakes and dolphins but never carried arrows or branches as far as I know....
https://picasaweb.google.com/41359.rogers/Hephthalites#5219644641300882258 This is in rectangle rather than circle. In print, Mitchiner ACW page...
Most I saw were scoops like a gouge rather than a cut but there was one that entered the design rather than being on the edge. Everything about...
I know there is one person here that might like this one but I'll post this here rather than as a PM. What I learned since this coin arrive this...
I believe every collection should have two parts. One is a specialty attempting to have all of something like your 12 Caesar set. The other is...
It was pointed out to me once that being a dealer was better than being a collector because you get to handle many, many more coins and have to...
I have no idea. What I know is I have decided not to buy coins with red patina that I can not live with just the way they are. My attempts at...
In general red patina is harder to remove than green so a coin showing red deposits on stripped brass surfaces may have been a cleaning job...
Unfortunately lot 907 was 17 antoniniani of Gordian III. I have seen several JQA coins sold with the wrong tags suggesting to me that the buyers...
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