Nice coins all! I actually have a number of gold coins, although many of mine are quite low purity and mostly small - I am a $1,000-coin virgin...
Very nice! I got mine a few years ago - he's affordable, but certainly not cheap! [ATTACH] I need to count up my rulers again - I've made some...
Gallienus was the last to produce any bronze coins bearing SC at Rome, ostensibly shortly after the capture of his father in 260 Mine is an...
Julian II is the last to see any sort of large coinage output while he was still Caesar under Constantius II, although I believe others held the...
Beautiful coin, Donna! I eventually hope to one day have the restraint to focus a year's budget on late Roman gold - one can get just about a...
Can't say I've ever seen a fake Etruscus antoninianus; the issues as Caesar are scarce-ish but not rare. The issues as Augustus are a completely...
Last one I think is upside down, modern, and Arabic. I believe the obverse is some type of gate or door flanked by flags, and under it I'm pretty...
Nice! I picked up this one from Cody on ebay a few years back [ATTACH] Portrait coins of Divus Trajan Pater are nigh impossible to find - IIRC,...
I love the imitations of these. I have a few imitatives and a few official, but apparently only one imaged right now [ATTACH] My favorite of the...
Great cistophorii, all! I gravitate toward the Imperial issues because generally I feel they deliver excellent value for your dollar, plus they...
I got this one misattributed as Alexander I think by either Zeus or Ares in one of their first auctions. I was blown away by the quality of the...
I have a handful Gades/Gadir AE "Quadrans" [ATTACH] 2nd Punic War, local Irregular issue [ATTACH] Iberian imitative "semis" [ATTACH]...
I agree with Victor. I picked up two barbarous VIRTVS EXERCITI types earlier in the year; it seemed to be a favorite type after the FEL TEMP fell...
FWIW, I've noticed the same thing from many Indian scholars as well. Ask about the Gandharan "bent bar" shatamana and whether they date to before...
Very nice! With the average mint worker being probably at best only poorly literate and coinage being produced for one Augustus and two Caesars,...
Nice! Seller probably thought that by taping it to a metal toy car, it would slip through an xray undetected. I bought a couple coins from a...
For every surprising success selling on ebay, there's always a disappointment. I've been buying large lots from auction houses and flipping them...
In the early/mid 4th century BC, some of the satraps of Caria "restored" some of the Miletos types. Original Miletos [ATTACH] Restored [ATTACH]...
Nice set!! I have all members in almost all their titles Valerian (Augustus only; Galluenus must have never accepted the fact that he was never...
I had high apple pie in the sky hopes that my bid would win this one, but someone else spotted what I saw:...
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