You've really peaked my interest! Looking forward to what you will be acquiring! Very nice 'camel' coin too!
That is a great example alde! I really do love this type and yours is better than most I've seen. Congrats! (I wonder how many coins I've missed...
If there is anything I love more than ancient coins its books, especially scholarly tomes. What a wonderful purchase RR! Just wow. As someone who...
What a neat pair! However, I'm with Bing on this one - if they were mine I would try and separate them.
Nice write-up and excellent addition! If ever I was to branch into another area of collecting, it would be the coinage of Elagabalus, so I was...
This recently happened to me when I privately bought a group lot of Domitian denarii at an agreed price. In my personal ledger I just recorded how...
Thanks everyone for the kind comments. I really love Vespasian's issues struck before he was proclaimed emperor by the senate in Rome ... so...
That is a wonderful Titus! The Flavian engravers at Rome were really fond of the 'Roman nose'!
LOL. Yea, only a 'few' more. [IMG]
Your regnal year 4 tet is in a completely different style, likely because it was struck in Alexandria for circulation in southern Syria. The...
I'm very excited about my latest acquisition. It's an early Syrian tetradrachm of Vespasian struck in the summer of 69 AD. [ATTACH] Vespasian AR...
It doesn't look 'smoothed' to me. Perhaps the area in question was harshly cleaned?
Nice tets Mat, especially the Probus.
You have the advantage of having the coin in hand and we pretty much agree that it's a cast. I don't like condemning coins from photos alone and...
Welcome Shanna! Some of my favourite coins in my collection have come from your family's coin firm. Nice to see you here!
The OP coin's style is good for the issue. So, if a forgery it is a modern cast from a genuine coin. It's difficult to determine authenticity from...
Anxiously awaiting a book, not a coin. [ATTACH] Nearly a decade in the making, this book is something I've looked forward to for nearly as long....
If I collected bronze this would be one I would snap up at that price. You did well.
Steve is right - 'beating a dead horse'. I refrain from using it here, lest it would offend ...
Nice fourrée. Perhaps an opportunity to create your own cataloguing system for them?
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