I would like to learn to grade but don't want to work for NGC. Does NGC Ancients offer grading seminars?
The auction is still there at...
Kujula Kadphises also imitated Roman-style coins! [ATTACH] Kushan Empire. Kujula Kadphises. Circa AD 30/50-80. AE (17mm, 3.4 gm, dichalkon?)....
I drag this one out every Halloween for this thread. The mummy of Artemis: [ATTACH] Anemorion/Anemurium, Valerian, 253-268 AD (dated ЄΤΓ, year...
[ATTACH] Here is another example of the type. I believe these are dated to 300-500 AD according the latest/based opinion. Unfortunately most of...
Here is one of the middle style, of the denomination you are calling hemidrachm. [ATTACH] Bukharian Soghd, Hircod or Hyrcodes, AR 0.78g, 12mm,...
The die cutter in Moesia was not skilled and did a cartoonish version with charicature-style nose. [ATTACH] Moesia Inferior, Tomi. Nerva (96-98...
It might be a fourree. NGC ancients will encapsulate fourees. There have been more Alexander fourees than usual in recent auctions (e.g. this...
Nice Medusa bronze, @Deacon Ray ! Did Wayne tell you the mint? Seven different mints struck this type and there are several different...
Nice coin Finn235! I have also never seen your obol variant with the head facing right. There reverse -- an eagle on a very small lion -- is...
@Ajax: Forgot the links: https://books.google.com/books?id=56MVAAAAMAAJ&dq=editions%3A2WgaPNZ6qVwC&pg=PA195#v=onepage&q&f=false This catalog is...
The inscription looks like ΠΕ-ΠΕ. An example from the Mavromichaelis collection was published by Svoronos. Journal International d'Archéologie...
You are correct that it is nearly impossible to tell the fractional coins apart. I am opposed to the names numismatists use. A "trihemiobol" is...
[ATTACH] Cilicia, uncertain. Obol, 0.54g. Unique? Obv: Gorgoneion facing, no tongue, close-cropped hair; within 7 (or 8?)-sided aegis, two rows...
I agree with the others who have said keep them together. The farthing has too much wear to have been joined to the tet in 1918. This is likely...
Check out the chicken feet on this bull! [ATTACH] Peroz I Kushanshah (circa 245 - 270 AD), AE 19mm. 2.3g. Balkh mint? Obv: ΠIPΩZO OOZOPKO KOÞANO...
The Monkey Antiquarian [ATTACH]
A shield against the thunder and lightening: [ATTACH] Epirus, The Molossi, circa 360-330/25 BC, AE17, 2.39g Shield with thunderbolt boss /...
I can recognize many of them! My eye is attracted to the base gold “Kashmir” stater in the upper right corner. I am currently reading John...
No bronze yet, Doug?
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