I am curious if CoinTalkers consider this coin overstruck or countermarked? Unlike other countermarked issues a pair of dies were used. However...
Your reverse is facing in the opposite direction as all of the Sanabares examples I have seen, so I may be off base. There is a huge variety of...
As a counterpoint, here is an article about a modern-day artist who creates sculptures out of pencil lead without a magnifying glass:...
Here is a tiny one: [ATTACH] Ionia, Magnesia. 5th Century BC. AR Tetartemorion (0.15 gm, 5mm). Obv.: youthful head (of Apollo?) right, [M-A]....
I also have one of these: [ATTACH] India, Gandhardwara Japanorchina, Long silver "bent-bar" shatamana circa 300-2018 CE Weight: 10.88 gm., 8 x...
I have the 2015 catalog of the ANS collection, Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian, and Kideraite Coins by Jongewood and Cribb with Peter Donovan. The...
I have the Kujula Kadphises coin that is said to be in Julio-Claudian style: [ATTACH] Kushan Empire. Kujula Kadphises. Circa AD 30/50-80. AE...
I did a search on ISEGRIM. SNG LEVANTE 0791 and SNG von Aulock #5678 have the ΔΙ. That's two examples out of about 46, so you would expect 4 or...
At the end he makes a joke about the United States' Memorandum of Understanding with Libya, restricting the import of rope made up until 1750....
[ATTACH] Tetradrachm (17.04 gm). Arados mint. Civic issue, dated CY 59 (201/0 BC). Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress...
I am also a fan of big, crude, early dollars. (Although I only have one.) Mine is not so old as yours! Just 100 years after the fall of the...
I agree with you Doug and the first Parthian coin I got was a Sinatrukes for that very reason. [ATTACH] It is a great hat. Like you I wanted the...
I have one of these. I have been too lazy to crack it out of the slab and all I have are the slabber's pics:...
The first has an inscription in Kufic Arabic and could easily be 1000 years old. The second looks Indian and very old but I don't recognize it....
Spring is here and that made me remember that I had been considering submitting something on my collection of Medusa coins to @Nicholas Molinari...
On another thread @dougsmit suggested "buying appealing coins that are available when they are available rather than saying 'my next coin will be...
Folks used to collect coins out of circulation that had a rarity premium. That isn’t possible today. So people go for varieties because that’s...
I have never seen guidelines for this forum. Collectors don't like to talk about criterion because there is likely to be disagreement. Most...
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