Awesome score, that Va Halfpenny is a superb bonus, congrats!
It seems that his 250.00 "Spurious" Afranius is a die match to one reported on Forvm (first pic from the fake coin reports there): [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Great coins! It seems that we're both starting to delve into Sicilian goodies at the same time, I am particularly fond of the Syracuse under Rome...
I prefer the lighting and more natural appearance of the first photograph. It "pleases the eye" whereas the more harsh, less natural appearance of...
The social fragmentation that @ancient coin hunter referenced is an extremely important issue. Instead of developing a well-rounded understanding...
Smartphones are extremely sophisticated, with their functionality and usefulness counterbalanced by the almost insidious way the intuitive...
That's some definite chipping (or spalling?) of the crystallized silver, plus additional smaller edge chips that aren't as eye-catching. The...
Nice coin, I still need to get my hands on some acceptable examples, but the clipping suffered by many has always been a turn-off. Was the...
Excellent thread, the series has been an enlightening read (the "lead swabs" for example) so thanks! I've noticed that aside from some rather...
@Terence Cheesman I wish my "consolation prizes" were all even more appealing than the initial object of desire, dunno how ya do it but it seems...
Ouch, but at least you were actually engaged in something important and responsible. When that happens to me it's usually because I drank a few...
I'm sure it can be maddening to some individuals to have so much remain unknown and ambiguous, but mysteries have always been personally...
Sounds like they started melting-down their leaded ley pewter!
Thanks for taking the time to provide some background! In an attempt to contextualize them with what I'm more familiar with I found a claim that...
I am ignorant of later Byzantine coins, when were the Tetartera first issued? And were they struck until the fall of the empire? I'm particularly...
Here's my main great miss/regret, a big chunky AE Litra of Sicily, Aitna under The Campani. This was the coin but I don't have a pic of the...
I don't know what the books say but those Rubrius Dossenus denarii seem common enough that you should be able to get a circulated one for 40 or...
Curiosity about the Copper-Nickel Bactrian coinage led me to find this 1957 article "Nickel in Ancient Bronzes" at...
I also would like to know this, but I'd imagine it was via a method similar to the production of Orichalcum, where they blended what we today know...
Lovely transformation and excellent work @Justin Lee ! You've figured out hands-on one of the angles for locating good-deals that many might take...
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