Assume for a moment that the US Mint will cease to strike the cent. (Don't argue about it here!) Would it be permissible for merchants to issue...
Chilling. I may write that down.
Lugdunum. Move to Lyons and its yours. :D
EF hands down. Awesome coin.
Glad you like them! Honestly, if stainless' pictures were as good as yours, I might have bought that tetradrachm. :D
I mean that you shouldn't complain if people think somewhat less of you after this incident. Personally I think its a bit underhanded to take...
silverstruck, you would do well to learn that the truth is not libel.
The that most people are answering is one of buying altered coins, at all or if so at what price. But the question that was ASKED was how to...
I'm fairly sure that this is simply a result of modern scholars describing the images as "Medusa." As far as I can tell, there are no specific...
SMALB = Sacra Moneta ALexandria Beta Tough luck on that one. Contact them and they may send you the right one anyway!
Its an eagle. And that reverse for Probus is actually pretty common. I've seen plenty. Emmett ranks all of the eagle tetradrachms as most common,...
Yes, and there are still numerous counterfeits. That's part of the reason they're in the foreign bins for 10 cents.
$60 is a pretty good price for that. Its a very pleasing specimen.
Good pics, but it would have been much more obvious, to me at least, if you had posted images of the whole coin first. To me, the "splotching" you...
I've used toothpicks and q-tips in cleaning coins before. It was a painful, but necessary, experience, as they were covered with what I could only...
Roman provincial coin of Emperor Probus, a potin tetradrachm struck in Alexandria, Egypt. Year 5, 279-280. Reference: Emmett 3984(5)
Think? Not really. Hope? Every day.
Definitely. EF ones on coinarchives seemed to go for $150 or so. Let me know if your dealer gets anymore of those lots in. :D
It was $25 a coin, which is more than I usually like to pay. But these were some top-notch imitations. Very stylized designs.
Apparently these are more common than I thought? Three on cointalk alone, awesome! How much did you two pay for them? And did you know what it...
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