Whether it is VCoins, eBay or a local coin show, The majority of coins are priced at more than most of us are willing to pay. Coins priced less...
For comparison, I'm showing two coins of the common falling horseman type bought this week on eBay. As bidding would go, they each cost within 50...
While BustCoinageDude took my favorite Roman woman (Julia Domna) there are several others worthy of special note. When the emperor Aurelian died...
I really suggest leaving the coin as it is. The black surface appears to be a hard and stable so removing it would leave a rough and porous scrap...
About ten years ago I set my database to count coins purchased from various dealers and Frank Robinson came out as my #1 supplier. That may have...
When this thread started last month, I knew nothing about the coin but happened to own the book so was able to study up on them. That, of course,...
If there has been one way of collecting that I have never understood it is the idea that a Roman collection must have one coin per emperor and a...
Learned something today: I had never heard of the Phillips checklist. It is probably just as well because my style of collecting is completely...
A countermark is a design added to a coin separately (usually later) than when the coin was originally made. Sometimes they revalued a coin or...
The Shahi kings seemed to have ruled what is now mostly in Afghanistan and Pakistan in the 9th-11th centuries AD issuing these coins that reflect...
Coins with Christian links are generally not quite as cheap but they are out there. As you study them, pay attention to what variety of Christian...
One other very minor point. The article says that gold and silver coins are not a problem. Yes but there are later Roman silver coins that are...
Bronze disease is the coin equivalent of cancer. No one wants to cut off body parts or do any of the treatments that cancer survivors have made a...
There was an old saying about news reporters asking who, what, when, where and how. To this we need to ask an occasional why. This same mindset...
Coin collectors are a strange lot. I'm as strange as any. Evidence: My latest coin arrival is a not-so-special falling horseman bronze of...
If you didn't read medoraman's last post, you should. Coin collectors tend to overdo the forcing of things into pigeonholes and the one I find...
That is a nice coin. There are a lot of Alexanders out there but not all are this clear. When dealing with common coins, we can afford to be...
Suggestion: Don't change. I started collecting ancients in the 1960's. In the years since then, I have specialized in several things but always...
My first impression was to accept the coin based on style which seems proper but I agree with eyestrain that the 'perfections' make it the sort of...
Regular participants on this site are apt to be suckered by postings when we try too hard to be nice and fair. The original post was a poor photo...
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