I'd actually be interested in seeing some of the lead, provided they're in the form of tokens.
There is good variety in that lot, but none of them look like they can be improved much. Still, I'm sure you'll have fun with them! Especially if...
I would advise you to skip cleaning all together. Even the coins from the good sellers are cruddy and common these days. You will never find a...
Ah, but how much can you learn without starting? Its a chicken/egg scenario.
The first one is, like Ripley said, is a bronze drachm of Vima Takto - one of the earliest Kushan kings to strike coinage in his own name. The...
But it is a mixed blessing. I see such amazing things, and yet I am cursed to never keep them. I'm like the security guard at a fancy brothel.
I wouldn't pay more than $150 for it. But I'm spoiled. Heh
I use a Zeiss and can't even imagine a better loupe.
Yard sale silver ≠ ancient silver.
A nice little horseman. The surfaces are reminiscent of earlier Constantinian hoards from northwestern European. I will refrain from guessing the...
One from the same obverse die, in similar grade, went for $700 at auction in January. Lower grade, porous specimens seem to average $100-200, very...
Looks real to me.
Case in point - I have no idea why you would cite that chart in that particular post. My Harper Collin's Study Bible translates the passage...
Out of curiosity, what is the chapter and verse of the relevant passage from Revelations?
Starting from Nero: Augustan issues, to 64 AD - 84 denarii to the pound, at 98.5% fineness 64 - Nero - 96 to the pound, 93 fineness 68 - Galba -...
I haven't bought a 'good' coin in a few years, aside from my tesserae, but I just couldn't allow this one to go cheap. And while I never actively...
The description doesn't match anything I see in Basso. But please do post a pic!
The majority of the silver denominations cited are either pre-Roman, or merely a measure of metal. The few that do cite prices in denarii are the...
But... I've always been that old as of Marcus Aurelius. Everyone thinks of me that way.
Oh, I paid about $120 for this. I was paid $5 to catalog them. $120 was just the right price - not too high, not too low.
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