I usually prefer coins shot on a black background but a friend who sells online prefers white so I threw together this rig. The background light...
...and the bimetallic Roman medallions were not really coins so I agree. Alloys are not bimetallic.
This is an above average coin of a series that we don't see offered very often. There are really great gold and silver coins but the bronzes are...
I know one dealer in old coin catalogs. I have no idea if he would have the one you seek but I'm sure that he would be willing to look if he did...
All the mentioned flags are correctly stated but there is an old basic rule that needs to be remembered. We can now call it Cucumbor's rule: If...
Tonight's coin show finds are three AE antoniniani of Gallienus' sole reign. All have something to recommend them and none would be suitable if...
That is really hard to tell. They are more popular and dealer often carry stock more likely to sell so it is easier to find a London that it is a...
It is a style thing. These often look a bit crude in an die cut sense and the Antony here has a reasonable look with Octavian being a bit overly...
Having shown the best looking coin I got, I'l show the worst two. Once a gorgeous coin is this sestertius of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar issued...
I don't like the look of it but I'm not one to listen to on a coin like this. I certainly would not buy it from you and you should not buy it...
Such coins probably spent the last 1700 years in a pot rather than loose in the soil. They may have been in a bag full of similar items with the...
I have had some luck with scraps of solid copper wire which is softer than brass and is available in various diameters. If you have ever had any...
I started working on the photos of the new coins I got at the show Friday. This is the best condition of the coins but the original photo did a...
There are three common types of this moneyer. You have two of them. The first is the commemorative of the 'Rape of the Sabine women' and is...
Do you have photos of 'British uncleaned' that show the situation?
Today I attended the Virginia Numismatic Assn, show in Fredericksburg and saw the usual crowd of dealers that do Virginia shows. Two of them...
I consider Randy's Constantius II above an example of a coin that needs cleaning. It is attractive as it is but the dirt obscures the mintmark...
Is the 30,000 per die number supposed to be an average or a target realizing that dome dies break or get retired for some reason (all the ones in...
I don't know that we have figures on coin use but cash paid to soldiers tends to get spent and bulk incentives tend to get paid in gold rather...
It is a fair question how many mints were used under, for example Victorianus. Since dies were individually cut rather than mechanically...
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