[ATTACH] If you add enough tubes you can get close with any interchangeable lens dSLR camera. This is a Canon. At some point, it is easier to...
Those who have not seen them might enjoy these pictures from Frome: http://www.flickr.com/photos/finds/sets/72157624319051565/
Ripley: The brown one is clearly Constantinople but the workshop letter could be gamma or a couple other letters I suppose. The green one is less...
SMKB is from the Sacred Mint (SM) in Cyzicus (K) from the second (B) shop. RIC even notes that my coin somes with wings spread and with wings...
...and I agree with Gao regarding doing your shopping elsewhere. I would bet a better coin that the dealer could not ID this one and probably not...
Cut me some slack, mat. I have not bought a Domna since February 2009. This year I only asked one dealer to show them and that produced nothing...
I'll ask you. Do you like it as well as the coins I posted from my Baltimore show purchases that cost between $10 and $20? Quintillus is a...
Yes, but not today. I can go to the bank tomorrow and get one.
Next I'll show my 'sleeper' from the show. When Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Empire from Rome to Constantinople he began a...
I'm not so sure: http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=210242 The portrait could be either and the reverse pose is like MARTI PAC which is a...
Because we have a few new collectors that may read this thread, I thought I'd show a few more coins I got at the Baltimore show including a bit of...
I have trouble accepting this new idea also. In particular I fail to see how it explains the vast majority of the coins I have seen (AE, I don't...
There are at least three different Sear number sets so quoting his numbers to others is not easy. His books have information but only the new set...
There is a 17-18th century group of Indian gold coins called Fanams that are usually about 6mm diameter and weigh 0.3 grams. That is smaller than...
A warning in general but not necessarily regarding this particular dealer: I never suggest buying a coin when the illustration is not of the...
If I were a middle school student and wanted to get into the hobby of ancient coins but knew what I know today, I would try the following: 1....
... 23 of them to be exact. I rode the charter bus up with the group from the Richmond Coin Club ($50) and bought coins between $5 and $30 each...
I regularly post disagreement with book suggestions for beginners since I believe that someone who owns one coin should think twice before...
I can't find this as a dupondius but I agree it is Annona seated right which is listed as an as: http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=50920 It...
In the interest of equality of the sexes, we should mention that the three types of Philip from the early Eastern period were accompanied by one...
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