Where Guy and I disagree is the desirability for people unwilling to study coins to be buying expensive coins. Just as the first car for a teen...
I am concerned that people seeing this thread and especially the quoted post will not realize that the linked sales were for fake coins. The...
This one has done duty in two weddings and I promised one bride to save it for a daughter to use. My wife and daughter used the same modern...
To Mark T and those who agree with him: The point was that there is no "best camera" since the limiting factor on quality is rarely the camera....
I disagree with almost everything posted on this question. I do use and believe in DSLR's and macro lenses but the difference they bring to the...
Meanwhile try 193 AD: Pertinax, Didius Julianus, Pescennius Niger and Septimius Severus.
I tried but the software is not obvious to those of us not a member since 2002. I found Pictures & Albums under Community but all I saw offered...
The edge cuts were to give silly people comfort that the coin was solid silver rather than plated but the coins exist plated as well. The coin...
A tip: Even if you could not read the Constantius on this coin (its pretty clear), the fact that the portrait has headgear means the coin is of...
Agree. Wildwinds is populated with coin sales online. Dane's spreadsheets (catbikes) try to list what there is rather than what will sell for a...
I believe the first is Constans from Thessalonika mint and the other two are Constantius II. If the photo were better the third would be...
One point I find interesting is that the last portraits of Caracalla from TRP XX have slightly more mellow expressions compared to some of the...
http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=158070 Good looking coin
If this is 3/16" thick, it is two pence. The exact 'cartwheel' design comes in 1d and 2d. The US silver dollar is midway between the two in...
A face only a mother could love - and considering their history I might question that one. He was cuter back when:
While there are always better histories if you seek them out, one quick trick is to use a search engine (Google or other) and type in the ruler's...
I made the mistake of avoiding things not in Greek or Latin for the first part of my collecting career. There are some wild places out there not...
INDALO- refers to the seller on Spanish eBay so it would be appropriate to drop it and list the coin as Gellia 1, issued by Cn. Gellius c.138 BC...
Where to start? I'm prejudiced. I'd start with this page and the 6 that link from it giving what I considered to be a primer in ancient coins:...
While I agree with Gao's post, I'd like to add one little point. There is no consistency to what differences get catalogued separately and which...
Separate names with a comma.
