What do you mean by 'best'? You can pick the one you would buy if it came available. Best early: Caracalla/Pluto nice portrait [ATTACH] Best...
Philip has many nice portrait dies from Rome and the East but the reverses end to be less finely done. The Claudius sestertius is not rare - I...
I have no idea why she is lifting her skirt but did find reference to her carrying her flower in hope of fruit to come later. The best of these...
I stand by my ID of the right coin and see no reason to doubt either coin.
I think many 'collectors' miss three big points here. First, money is only important to people who have less than they would like to have. When...
[ATTACH] My coins of this style range from 3.3 to 5.4g with the heaviest being my other Pax (above). In general, my heavier coins are better...
I may have gotten lucky on the right coin. Sellwood, the standard Parthian reference gives lists as #79.50 a dichalkos of Vologases III with a...
I don't do 'Positive' on these but you can take these guesses as a place to start. The left coin clearly reads 'of king Antiochus' and the...
I'd leave the coin alone unless the spots trouble you so much you can't stand it.
As requested, I'll copy here images from my page that rexesq mentioned in another thread: http://dougsmith.ancients.info/philip.html [ATTACH]...
While I agree with medoraman regarding the need for full disclosure of weight and measurements, be careful not to hide behind them. The first...
I saw this as a possibility but the photo is too fuzzy to go past head/eagle which works for either. If we had any legend, it would help. I...
The hardest step here is the first step. Deciding which book or which online reference to try is a lot harder with ancients. Often the best...
This is a hard question. Most of us work by recollecting what we have seen before and then going to the appropriate book or website to confirm....
I believe I see a club in the reverse field which could mean Tyre mint especially if there is a Tyre monogram over it (too fuzzy). It is a...
http://www.stereoscopy.com/faq/freeviewing.html They even have a page on how to view the images but I can't say that I see how their...
A recent question on another section of CT renewed my interest in shooting coins in 3D. Most coins have so little relief that this is not worth...
There are many ways of doing stereo including using a stereo microscope which will work well for small parts of coins but rarely has large enough...
I have a Lincoln cent that has been turned on a lathe so that the recess will accept a dime. The copper edge is not easily seen at a distance so...
BTW, the value of the RedBook is not so much in the values listed but in the other information contained in the text parts which many people fail...
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