Don't skip the islands of Kossura and Malta: http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/sicily/cossura/t.html...
Does "brushed" mean the same as "whizzed"?
Herakles/Stag from Selge, like https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=132075
When I started collecting, 20 years ago, the first book I bought was Handbook Of Ancient Greek & Roman Coins by Klawans and Bresset. At that time...
If you get only one Parthian coin you can't go far wrong with a Sinatrukes. I have one. The previous owner tried to improve it with a little...
Sinatrukes has the best hat in the series: "tiara decorated with taurine horn and duplex torque with stags"
I may have no minimum standards. I have several that are quite miserable, but am willing to do worse should the wrong specimens become available....
The text of the UNESCO convention is at http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=13039&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html . It says "... the...
"Pseudo-autonomous" refers to the coin. It looks like an autonomous city coin, but it was struck under the Romans. The city might have had the...
I did not record the orientation of the dies. Getting the small dies to match up would be difficult. It is likely the dies were hinged or there...
I have Howgego’s book on Greek Imperial Countermarks but I acquired my coin before the book and forgot to look this one up. I don’t believe this...
I suspect @Bob L. has the correct ID. I have a similar coin. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] TROAS, Alexandria Troas, AE16 3.96g 261-246 BC Bear...
This may apply if you pick up the coin in person. I bought a sweater in Ireland and at the airport there was a place I could show receipts for...
I have found it very education to attempt to describe coins myself rather than cutting and pasting from a catalog. Unfortunately little of what I...
I bought this a month ago at the Garden State coin show as unidentified. I was sure I would be able to identify it quickly but it has proved...
I remember trying to attribute your coin. I suspect it is unpublished. It is not published in the usual places, nor in ISEGRIM. I did not reply...
[ATTACH] Cilicia, uncertain. Obol, 0.54g. Unique? Obv: Gorgoneion facing, no tongue, close-cropped hair; within 7 (or 8?)-sided aegis, two rows...
The verification site is not perfect. I have about a dozen NGC certified coins. Two lack pictures on the web site. I have not seen one with an...
Nice coin @TheRed ! This tetradrachm is from Ekbatana. Ekbatana was the eastern-most mint the struck Alexander tetradrachms. The authors of...
Rather than going with my gut let's look at comparables. I have the Podcast Addict app on my phone and a 45 minute commute. I enjoy several...
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