I only paid $700, it could probably get 900 something in the right venue.
When I was a little kid, maybe 6 years old max, I remember going to a flea market to get wheat cents. I saw some Mercury dimes there and...
I'll take it as a compliment that the only thing you can complain about the is the uneven edge. :D I'll get you yet! But have I really not...
Stop posting that coin! Before I come and take it from you. :p
Now now, play nice! Both of you have a point. Tmoney, most of the ones you've seen probably ARE little lumpy things. But you've probably seen a...
Good stuff guys, thanks! Maybe, just like it takes an odd type of person to collect coins, it takes an even odder type to collect ancients.
There's maybe a dozen dedicated ancient coin collectors on Cointalk. And yet, whenever I post a new acquisition, three or four people always...
And here you confront one of scholars' greatest problems with ancient coins in the market - where the hell did it come from! A coin in the ground,...
Yes, it would be costly to create the dies and perfect the technique. But after the initial output, each subsequent coin would cost MUCH less to...
Don't worry too much. LRB's are still pretty safe to buy, as these counterfeits are by no means ubiquitous.
You sound like a teenager caught with pot! "I was holding it... I swear its not mine!" LOL! I'm glad I could help out, these sentimental coins are...
Your "minor bronze - Widow's mite" is actually a bronze prutah struck under the Roman procurator in Judaea, Marcus Ambibulus, in 9-11 AD....
Here's the response on Forvm, just what I thought too. Be on the look out for sharper-than normal edges, more flatness than one would expect, and...
Somehow I missed this before (late-August was quite busy for me). There's a new hoard of fakes on the market of common late Roman bronze. Examples...
#2 and #5 cost me $7 and $10, respectively.
Weak. [IMG] Miletos, Ionia AR – 1/12th stater, 9.5mm c. 525 BC lion foreparts r. star in incuse pattern Sear 3523 [IMG] Thasos, Thrace AR...
I said three to four hundred. Estimating the growing number of those interested in toning, and the inherent uniqueness of each piece, that seemed...
Do post a description, for those of us who don't keep portraits of the emperors in our wallets. (I do, of course.) Very neat portrait of...
Fine, I'll answer: Are you seriously suggesting that §1343 “Fraud by wire, radio, or television” does not cover shill bidding on on-line auctions...
Mr Cohen, may I ask you what we at cointalk have done to draw your ire? Why do you insist on insulting us when we question your flimsy arguments?...
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