There is a lot about eBay that would improve for me if I had full freedom to select search options. Certainly one would be eliminating Private...
Catalogs usually give this as holding a mappa (roll of cloth) but some, including this, look more like an olive branch. For some reason I can't...
That is Constantius II. By the time they started making the two victories both Constantinus I and Constantinus II were dead so the choices are...
Having a teenage grandson with Elagabalus' personality usually makes it hard to be either nice or cute.
I'll take it if it cycles around again.
Constantinus is Latin for Constantine. The other easily confused one is Constantius (missing one N). Yous is a very nice Antioch mint (1st...
Very young and a nice coin. There is a lot of variety available in her portraits considering how short of time she was around.
Maximianus is late third century AD while Constantine X is 11th. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximianus_(emperor)...
The first is a bronze tetradrachm of Alexandria Egypt with Hercules on the reverse. The obverse legend is not very clear. EDIT: I can't read...
My favorite 'it' would be one of the early coins while they were still making AE1 size. [ATTACH]
Ways to collect coins follow fashions and the current US fashion need not be related in any way to the current ancient fashion. When asked what I...
Sorry, some of us find links of interest in the right side menu where all the sub forum choices mix together. Perhaps if the OP had used the...
Certainly. I'd also like to know what sort of envelopes/containers they spent the last 50 years in. It might be educational in coin preservation.
There are too many answers to the sharpness question to pick just one. Autofocus lenses can pick up a highlight on a proof surface and focus...
I'm not a believer in Randy's Hephthalite silver. There are a lot of this sort of thing that I believe to be genuine but they are bronze and very...
You buy what you like. I have recently seen two or three low grade asses of Nero with the temple of Janus reverse for $75 to $150. I also recall...
[ATTACH] The lion and bull of Lydia used to be promoted as the earliest but we know now that there were several that beat it including some plain...
I always found it interesting that the E's in the Latin Legends are usually squared but the epsilons in the Greek numeral mintmarks are almost...
http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/coinphoto2011ez3.html I shoot over a 'black hole' created by a tube to shadow the black background...
I used to be hardline on the term 'ancient' but it started bothering me that coin dealers who handled only ancients were selling Byzantine up to...
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