Strange piece, it looks like a crudely cast copy of an Orthodox Icon (rough surface and patina are rather unusual) that may have been some sort of...
I want to express my large appreciation for your small fraction, that little coin is fantastic! I don't recall seeing one in my searching around...
35-in-1! [ATTACH]
As a relative neophyte, this degree of familiarity where the idiosyncrasies of stylistic "personality" are as recognizable as the faces of...
Nice little coin, but thanks to TIF's psychological priming I can "see" both Alphas as well as the crustacean, so while it does appear that the...
So what is the background on the production and retailing of the "Roman Bath" coins? The card looks 1970s or earlier which is interesting in its...
Very informative presentation and nice coins! So is it the case that the only way to identify the issues from Antioch is via matching the coins to...
It looks good to me. Despite the apparent lack of circulation wear, it does show signs of surface silver loss from burial conditions and nascent...
I looked around and it appears to be a Medieval Grosso of Arezzo in Tuscany. Some similar coins:...
Interesting, thanks for the excerpt, wouldn't mind seeing a pile of a million of these! I had read that hoard evidence suggested that the...
In Asia Minor, a regionally-recognized and widely circulated class of rather standardized coins minted in many cities which emerged in the 2nd...
It's risky buying "uncleaned" Romans as many of the lots are partially cleaned and cherrypicked, leaving only common coins that the seller's...
It's dangerous enough to my savings just looking at all the lovely coins posted here, and now thanks to you a hard copy of the Barrington Atlas...
Quite interesting, I appreciate the MET article describing the usage of the coins in southeast Asia. I had no idea they actually circulated so far...
That is an attractive coin of fine style, I also need to get one! The northern Black Sea region, with the intermingling of peoples and cultures,...
Not as good as for that wonderful Bulgarian Lipanoff Studio Athenian tetradrachm! Or all those olympic medals, lol.
Great quote, it sent me on a fun wikipedia expedition to learn more about him, and I wound up finding a digitized copy of his 1697 "Numismata"...
Thanks for sharing Mike, it's always helpful to study fakes and incorporate their attributes into one's mental "counterfeit detector", I too have...
That seller seems legit overall to my generally untrained eye, however I recall seeing them sell some wildly iridescent-toned Greek silver that...
That seller's "artifacts" and rings are mostly or entirely modern fakes, so I wouldn't trust unusual looking tetradrachms from them either. I'd...
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