As Yoda would say, the words out of my mouth took.
I only know for sure regarding the imitations. Rick's verbal instructions to the executors--never written down--regarding his imitations was that...
A bit of backstory for the coin discussed here: When I sold my imitations collection, RBW agreed on my insistence to buy this important piece,...
Just added another old paper to Academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/29506857/A_New_Look_at_the_Poroschia_Hoard I'm on a roll or something......
Well, a mere eight years after publication, I finally got around to posting my initial imitations paper on Academia.edu:...
My example of Crawford 379/1: [ATTACH]
In reply to your second point: For better or worse, slabbing has indeed made some inroads into the ancient coin marketplace, at least in the US,...
@desertgem Insider is by his own acknowledgement NOT an "ancient guy." That makes your address to "the rest of you ancients guys" a pointless non...
This was still the ancient coin board, last time I looked. For ancient coins, this statement is categorically, 100%, not true: "NEVERTHELESS the...
For the record, here's mine. Hardly a wonder coin, but I've had it a long time and I'm fond of it: [ATTACH]
Note though that there are a handful of serrate examples known of Crawford 407/2, the top coin in your examples. Here's one from Gemini II: [IMG]...
Years ago someone pilfered our mail and figured out I was a coin collector. Sure enough, they broke into our apartment--hopeful visions of early...
I didn't hear him enter but my nostrils flared at the smell of his perfume. Pyramid Petchulli!
The male head on the denarii of L. Julius Bursio, Crawford 352/1, is also generally considered to be a composite, bearing the attributes of...
@Carthago The Haeberlin/RBW coin was indeed remarkably complete, but that completeness came at the cost of spread devices and a rather weak strike...
One of mine: [ATTACH]
And, not to be completely one-note, one of my favorites from my now-dispersed Imperial collection. Note the Medusa on the breastplate: [IMG]
I have a lot of "favorites." Here are a few I don't think I've posted before: [IMG] [IMG] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I'll save TIF the bother of having to look it up again, lol; it's Crawford 513/3, struck by Marcus Arrius Secundus. As far as anyone knew (other...
Ah, another chance to post my ultimate dream coin, a type I never expected to see for sale. Almost certainly I'll never see another, although...
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