Very little in my rather large library is available online in any format. The German language sales before WW2 and some US sales are an exception,...
Terrific coin, really a superb example of the type and a scarcer early style. Take the coin out and put it in your Abafil or whatever. Repurpose...
Yes very rare! To those spending it, it would have been half an Italian as (of 10 uncia) though 5/12 a Roman as. That's why the quincunx and...
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Yes indeed that was my coin, and it's execrable condition shows how rare it is! I replaced it with Leo Benz' example which is still a dreadful...
This is an extremely rare coin type. I'm surprised too! The quinarius is relatively common, as is the portrait-type denarius of Lepidus. But the...
I now no longer think it was an error. Can't be proved but I suspect they needed a small volume and just made one reverse die for two...
I have one and a half die-matches to Red Spork's anonymous Luceria semuncia. A double die matched semuncia and a reverse die matched uncia. Go...
I agree with all this. There appear to have been multiple fake Murcus types marketed in recent years (and a couple of entirely genuine ones too;...
Yes I agree the style of the fake Lanz Murcus is absolutely correct because as is invariably the case with high end fakes it is derived from a...
These are low quality obvious fakes, to anyone who IS intimately familiar with these types. The Murcus looks like its made out of plastic for...
Because Gitta Kastner and then Hubert Lanz (same firm follow on) were highly respected auctioneers of genuine ancient coins in the 1970s to 1990s,...
Revised text. But the revisions are trivially minor, from those I have noted. Corrections to text or attribution errors. Occasionally I have noted...
So I got my RRC reprint - it has the same number of pages as the original - it is the exact same dimensions as the original. The mystery is...
Yes that's the coin. The type does prove that by the first century BC, old victoriati were circulating as quinarii.
Banti is a resource aimed at those interested in minor varieties such as symbols, and at provenance hunters like myself. The photos within are...
"ex Andrew McCabe" means I sold whatever example I had. Doesn't always mean I've already replaced - often it can take 10 years or more to find the...
I've never lost a coin permanently. I did drop one on a rainy day on the footpath of a London bridge while crossing. I realised an hour later. I...
I assume former regarding coin reproductions - smaller, akin to the Durst reprint of Sydenham, or the reprint of Grant's From Imperium to...
In addition to the benefits mentioned by Red Spork for buying the RBW book rather than the catalogue, there's multiple other benefits I would like...
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