[ATTACH] Most of you probably consider 'early medieval' a term for Dark Ages in Western Europe but my interest in this date range is farther east....
I love the Tye book (Early World Coins and Early Weight Standards) but it is rarely a book to base exact ID's upon. It is more a way to find where...
The problem is a copy of Mitchiner sells for more than pretty much a complete one coin per reign set of these. Of course it is a decent book for...
You ask too much from memory but there were absolutely no links to non hoard coins and all hoard coins were linked to each other with no missing...
As I recall the overall hoard was very little light but not enough to be a certain diagnostic. My fake is 1.1g and my more believably real one is...
I'll wish you well but the Black Sea coins seem to be too easy to pass off as genuine while the Readers Digest copies are nowhere close to...
Twenty years ago the ancient coin community was rocked by a huge 'hoard' of FAKE diobols (small Greek silvers) that became known as the Black Sea...
I'm a beginner in Indian but would guess your second coin as Kumaragupta I rather than one of the Kashatrapas that should have the mountain...
[ATTACH][ATTACH] I have to agree with medoraman that the coin that started this is gXF/VF, not FDC but it is still better than almost all of my...
Nice coin (esp. the obverse) but the photography is better.
A very interesting group H, it turns out, is more educational than I thought. In hand, I consider the item in no way deceptive and so obviously...
We all have opinions about how to keep coins. I use trays but that seems overkill when you have just one coin. Listen to the advice given above....
This is billed as the largest hoard found in Britain and is listed as Valerian/Gallienus through Diocletian/Maximinianus. While there is a...
I agree with Medoraman and add that if you had bought a set for $1000 when I reviewed it in 1998 you could get a profit selling it today. Various...
The coin I sawed out of the slab was $10 which was about what similar coins I had seen 'RAW' were selling for. I believe NCG will be correct on...
A lot of what you pay for ancients depends on how set you are to have a particular coin. If you decide that your next coin will be a certain...
Rather than allowing this to die a noble death, I'll cover the two coins no one found of interest just in case someone happens on this thread...
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Santayana In some cases Emperors probably realized that being Emperor was not...
Thanks. I would so love to see the US eliminate the 1 and 5 cent coins which cost more than face value to mint but it is unrealistic to expect a...
For the money, I consider Michael Grant a first choice. The book is not recent but neither is the material covered and there are many used copies...
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