Patience is easier if you plan to collect these things for the rest of your life. I'm glad that this nice coin came with such a short wait. It...
Nice older portrait
Notice how Commodus usually looks tired on his coins. Being a god must be hard work.
There are many sales of interesting coins. The article states that it was his desire for the coins to go to other collectors where they would be...
Just in case someone reading this does not know: Wayne Sayles (author of the above link) is author of the most common set of books on ancient...
It is always hard to be 100% sure just from photos but I am 99.9% sure you did the right thing staying away from these fakes. If one is good and...
That is a very nice Axumite coin, certainly better than mine!
I agree with Randy. This coin has a especially well done eagle 'different' than the usual.
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/feac53gor.html There was a time that most posts about Gordian III were how to confuse him with the...
Bart9349's link showed several coins including one from Beast (a very knowledgeable numismatist IMHO):...
Interest in ancients here on CT seems to have been falling off. Perhaps this nice Caesar thread will help. Probably the easiest Antony portrait...
Read the listing: "Struck until 1852 with this date." Consider how many coins could have been made all with that date and how many people want a...
:ia: The fun of it all is that we don't all see things the same way. Of all the coins shown, the one I would most like to own - as-is - is the...
I'd be interested if anyone comes up with more on this one. What really strikes me as unusual is that the coin is marked 'Sterling'. Advertising...
NCLT is non-circulating legal tender. Somewhere along the way someone decided it was OK for a government to make coins that bear a face value but...
While I know nothing about Nikons, using my Canons I prefer a longer focal length for coins since that increases the distance from lens to coin...
While I prefer black or gray, white is still better than those fake reflections and shadows.
This is news to me. I have always dealt with Edward C. D. Hopkins who last updated in 2011. There is a lot of great material and thousands of...
You have to expect a few problems when studying a group whose ruler list includes 'Unknown King' and who did not see the need to put their names...
Parthian coins present several problems compared to other ancients. Few of the rulers actually placed their name on the coins but, instead, used...
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