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A denomination set with the same type on each coin is much more impressive than a simple denomination collection with different types. Ephesos is...
For coins with market value greater than 25k the fee is $100 + 1% of the value (with a cap at $2500 so all coins worth more than a quarter million...
This is why I used the example of an MS coin with huge test cut. Earlier in the day an XF owl sold for 1.5x what the MS example sold for. NGC...
Catalogers of high grade modern coins often boast about coins having only a few specimens, or even no specimens, known in a higher grade. Ancient...
Last year a hoard of 300,000 Song dynasty coins were discovered in China http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/chinese-coin-hoard-weighs-tons...
I was the high bidder on an extremely rare bronze with CNG but lost it. This was when they first started taking bids by email instead of phone...
Fat Alexander! [ATTACH] Arados mint. Civic issue, dated CY 59 (201/0 BC). 17.04 gm Obv: Head of Herakles right, wearing lion's skin headdress...
Seems like an opportunity to add Cleopatra VII Philopator who lived in Rome for three years, had affairs with Caesar and Marc Antony, and was...
The seahorse or hippocamp is an unusual type on Greek coins. We see it on bronzes in Sicily and on Phoenician coins. We also see it on coins of...
I have one of these, a pleasing and heavy Sestertius of Faustina Sr. Just don't turn it over! [ATTACH] Diva Faustina Senior. Died AD 140/1....
Thanks for starting this thread, @britannia40 . I have not seen many of Faustina Junior: [ATTACH] EGYPT, Faustina Junior (147-175 AD), dated...
This is a great little type! Lovely specimens everyone. Tetrobols from the mint at Histiaia in Euboea are sometimes counterstamped with...
Here is a less-common obverse for the bikini bottom: [ATTACH] Kyme, 250-190 BC, 1.29g, AE12 Obv: Head of the city founder, Amazon Kyme, right...
Nearly all of those books are available for download and well-organized on Digital Library Numis....
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ethnic Four noun meanings are given. The fourth, and therefore most obscure in the opinion of the dictionary...
If you get a chance you should go. The library has open stacks (not including the rare book room). Nearly every book on Greek coins is on a pair...
No love for the coins of India? [ATTACH] The Andharas of the Deccan, Satakarnis, Goutamiputra Sri Yajna Satkarni (?), 172 - 201 AD, Potin...
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The reverse of these features a bust. Rarely the bust is in good style. Those are attributed to Kamnaskires V. Example:...
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