You borrow a hundred dollars, the bank controls you. You borrow a million, you control the bank.
No worries, you didn't know! Where are you planning to go to school, and what do you want to study?
:( I catalog coins for a living, and I do it here to help out collectors and get them interested in other areas of numismatics. I don't really...
$30 each would be reasonable. You've done well.
They are horrendous at attributing foreign coins. I once had an Islamic gold coin of the 'Abbasid dynasty - slab that said "Islam king dinar." No...
What Gao said is correct.
#1 - A Byzantine coin. Heraclius, with Heraclius Constantine. AE Follis. Nicomedia mint, 2nd officina. Dated RY 3 (AD 612/3). Sear 834 #2 - A...
The portrait on the right looks Flavian to me. But seriously - that is a ROUGH coin. Try to get ones that you can actually ID!
Prices for these are highly dependent on grade. A high grade specimen, with good surfaces such as the one in the link, will always bring much more...
It is an Islamic bronze dirhem of the Zengids of Mosul. See here: http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=91608
It's a silver denarius of Severus Alexander. I would STRONGLY advise beginners to only buy clear, readily identifiable coins. Get some more...
Definitely fake. Look at the strike on the reverse.
Matt - do you have this book? It's a complete die study of the series....
The "Chalice" is a kantharos. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantharos
Not very clear. Possibly Teos in Ionia, they issued coins with the griffin/kantharos theme.
It's an Ottoman manghir. I can't see the mint and date on it.
Most of what are sold as Celtic 'ring money' are likely parts of horse fittings.
Very good. That still doesn't change anything I said.
A - you need better pictures B - you are just going to sell it on ebay anyway
Tickets from previous owners or auctions. Here's one from 1895 in my collection: http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-54093
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