I bought the four De Witt catalogs shortly after they came out directly from Kunker, even though I don't collect medieval coins. I bought them...
The full name of Macrinus includes OPELLlVS and he took also the name SEVERVS which those letters abbreviate. It is Macrinus.
Some anonymous folles ["Class I"] have been attributed to the Byzantine emperor Nicephorus III (1078-1081). He has one other follis type that is...
Centering is part of the strike. It cannot be a perfect strike unless it is very well-centered.
I think it includes everything Pausanias saw on his grand tour, organized by city. He wrote in the late second century AD. I don't know where...
F. Imhoof-Blumer and P. Gardner wrote Ancient coins Illustrating Lost Masterpieces of Ancient Art: A numismatic Commentary on Pausanias, which was...
Another thread has considered the meaning of FDC, fleur de coin, flower of the die. That coin fits the bill, doesn't it?
I wonder if the scale used gives only results as a multiple of .05 so weight like 4.53 could not be displayed. 4.55 is a bit heavy but maybe it...
@the professor , I have a page about selling ancient coins: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/howtos.html If you have further questions, you can...
They look fine to me. They do not look at all like fourrees. However, here have been very deceptive forgeries of late Roman gold as Sayles notes...
@calcol , it may be that the seller also sells off of eBay, say at shows. When he goes to a show with his stock he tells eBay the coins are...
"L" is the Egyptian symbol for "year". "A" is 1 in Greek. So your coin was struck in year 1 of his reign under the Egyptian calendar, which rolled...
[ATTACH] Here is one with ROMA raised, not incuse. 23 mm. 6.40 grams. Crawford 29/3. Struck 215-212 BC. Sear 32.
I don't see any tooling. The OP coin looks genuine to me. The second picture (obverse only) makes it look polished or rubbed after the first...
I wonder if the nose on the bust is original. A very large number of ancient busts have the nose broken in antiquity and repaired in modern times....
The ANA has a vested interest in promoting coin collecting. They could serve the hobby by having an up-to-date web page for coinshows. I wonder if...
I went to that site and it is nearly empty. It does not even have the dates of the summer ANA in Chicago, the biggest show in the world. So, I...
Usually the accepted distinction is that Gordian II is balding and Gordian I is not (I remember it as the opposite of what might be expected since...
@Andrew McCabe , what criteria did you use to pick the vendor?
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