I have seen tables of punch marks (e.g. https://indiacoinsmarks.wordpress.com/2013/11/07/punch-marks-on-ancient-indian-coins/ ) but I don't know...
I thought everyone knew about this guy. This is the kind of a guy who sells group lots containing multiple examples of the same cast fake....
I was hoping to add a Becker to my collection but did not heed @Lolli 's advice and only bid 150 EUR. Unsuccessful:...
The Akragas countermarks are huge. (This type has its own entry in Sear's Greek Coins and their Values!) Example:...
New Style coins have numerals Α-Μ (or even Ν in intercalary years, when there were thirteen lunar months). These are numbers, not abbreviations...
Look up the eagle-on-thunderbolt symbol in Thompson or Mørkholm. I have neither, but luckily there are many examples on the web for Thompson 477...
The interesting thing about these coins is that they can be dated to the month. [ATTACH] ATTICA, Athens, Tetradrachm (16.5g), June 13 - July 13,...
Assuming 20% buyers fee and no VAT, that set sold for 51.85 euro per coin (=$57.72). Lanz' Syracusan dekadrachm has a bid nearly four times that...
Silver concoctions by Becker have toned and look like this. The description of the lot of 329 Becker "coins" auctioned in 2007 gives the basic...
This coinage is cataloged according to Alan Walker's magnificent catalog of BCD's collection. The issues of Magalopolis in this period are...
I have no Beckers. I have been trying to get the lead version Neapolis gorgoneion stater without success for many years. I almost acquired one...
Usually the best strategy for finding the host coin is identifying the countermark in Howgego. He lists the cities he knows for each undertype....
It seems the series you are interested in is heavily faked. I will not buy bronze coins of Greek Sicily without inspecting them personally. I...
I believe this is the earliest numismatic portrait of the Mt. Argaeus: [ATTACH] CAPPADOCIA, Caesaria (AKA Eusebia), 36 BC - 17 AD or 101-89...
More like this one: [ATTACH]
Notice that the insert is in the pocket that normally holds the tag. It only looks like it is framing the coin. The coin rests in the other...
Early attempts to make the holes with scissors produced sloppy results. I purchased two square punches and a round punch manufactured EK Tools on...
I have designed a folding flip with viewing hole. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] As you can see from the sample denarius I usually just write the...
In the future Princeton's FLAME (see https://coinage.princeton.edu/ ) will be able to allow queries for the kinds of things you are interested in....
The Lycian alphabet is explained at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycian_alphabet Their letter for “th”, equivalent to the Greek θ, looks like )(...
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