I can't say anything about the coin worth hearing except possibly that the photo is horrid and could make good look bad or bad look good.
All are nice and particularly nice when you consider that both sides are nice. So many of my coins of this nature are better on one side than the...
How would one go about determining when a countermark on a token/coin was put on the coin? Recently this one appeared on eBay without making...
Agree. Dealers can't afford to shoot and reshoot to get everything just right but we collectors can and should work to get an image that...
Thank you. This is the kind of numismatics that could be interesting. Here I thought recent day US collectors only collected labels on their...
2010P received in change at Costco and not even UNC. (to use an old term since there is wear on the chin) but the question was regarding the...
What do you call a nickel that shows the three separate sections of the bases of the four columns?
There is a crayfish under the crab. The three dots means the coin is 3/12th litra or a quadrans. Others in the series are the 4 pellet (one at...
Nice owl!
It was badge of the city like the turtle was to Aegina and the owl to Athens. I do not know why they picked it. I did find this. Google is our...
V1, page 305 (beginning of Augustus) and V2, page 75. I do not own any more of them.
I believe it is the other way around. The Parthians did not use tets but made some in the western part of their realm for the use of subject...
I always wanted one of these but since there are only a handful in existence and the average one breaks a half million, it was not going to...
This is not my specialty but I believe no symbol under the eagle means Antioch and Upa to D = COS IIII so 213 to the end of the reign.
No, he lumped them together at the start of a volume where you can go look if you know they are there but where many people will never find them....
I'm away from home now and don't have the books handy but some consul numbers do more for dating than others. Trajan was COS V in 103 and COS VI...
The answer to this question depends on your definition of 'terribly expensive'. For 'dirt cheap' about all you get are ugly coins with dirt still...
History? I consider this a majorly important coin due to history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aemilius_Scaurus_%28praetor_56_BC%29 Not...
Going negative makes the 'siliqua' look like it was lighted from below so I'd suggest actually lighting from below and see if it looks more like a...
They quote Gobl MIR and RIC but follow both numbers with the mint name assigned by that work which rarely match. I understand how mints can be...
Separate names with a comma.
