A little backstory for your new coin, if you're interested: In 2003, not too long after I began my study of RR imitations, I found this coin...
A couple of snakes. I have others, but they're slithering out of reach. [IMG] [ATTACH] The top one is ex Knobloch. The bottom is ex Sydenham,...
I hate to be pedantic, but for the record, Michael Crawford's comments regarding the slave trade etc. ("If we may with all due caution...") are...
Heh, that was my first Eraviscan coin too! That coin, not just that type. They were never my focus, but I do illustrate a few more on my "legacy"...
Well, I've been at it for awhile... Sadly though, I'm missing all sorts of coins, including some surprisingly common types where I haven't found...
My example: [ATTACH]
My example of a slightly different variety of the OP coin, with reverse legend ANTONIVS IMP reading counter-clockwise rather than clockwise; CRI...
Fair enough. Certainly the terms are mostly obsolete for US coins. I hardly study that market, but from a comfortable distance it does seem that...
"Cabinet toning," used correctly, is the grey or brown color that a bright coin slowly achieves after residing for many decades (or hundreds of...
Venus' jaunty baseball cap is especially appealing. On higher grade examples you can still read the R for Rome and admire the details of the...
The OP type: [ATTACH]
Well, it's a long time ago, but this cost me all of $75 from HJB, decades before I was associated with the firm professionally: [ATTACH]
Ex RBW, NAC 63, lot 272. Not my coin, but at two barley-grains and two wheat-ears (which the Brits quixotically insist on calling corn!), surely a...
A camel: [ATTACH]
Cleo and Tony: [ATTACH]
David has recently been joined by Barry Murphy. Imo, Barry has the best eye for forgery detection of anyone active now. David is very good as...
No, that isn't it. Numismatic Studies is a different ANS series of stand-alone single topic works. Museum Notes is a journal containing articles...
This person may be a helpful and constructive Coin Talk poster on some topics; I have no opinion on that. His infrequent comments in the ancients...
Oh? How exactly would you suggest reacting to genteel posts like this: "Do you guys have petrified brains?" Your pal is being treated far more...
You're assuming this twerp can read. There's no real evidence of that.
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