Here is a nice anonymous follis of Class D: [ATTACH] Sear 1836. 30-26 mm. 12.38 grams Attributed to Constantine X, 1059-1067. Most of these are...
The OP coin is an ancient imitation of a type of Magnentius (350-353). The reverse type is FELICITAS REIPVBLICE, emperor standing left holding...
According to this article https://www.coinsweekly.com/en/News/Leu-Numismatik-AG-Robbed-on-Christmas-Eve/4?&id=5819 526 lots of ancient coins...
I have seen fake Roman Republican denarii with excellent details and convincing surfaces but square or filed edges. The third and fourth photos of...
The second book I got is this one: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I don't collect English coins, but I love reference works. This one is...
I wanted, and got, coin books for Christmas. Here is one spectacular book bought from Charles Davis (of vcoins). Portraits: 500 years of Roman...
I added some coins to my site: http://augustuscoins.com/index.html including a scarce early Christian chi-rho (on the Constantinian page) and...
Here is an old thought about coin collecting with a grain of truth. "What is the best way to make a small fortune in coins? "Start with a large...
There is! Keep your stories coming!
I have an auction sale catalog, M&M GMBH 44 (25 Nov. 2016), which offered 74 lots of individual coins of Lucilla. Most are not high grade, but...
I love the original post for its "WHY?" questions and answers. I think they are just right and many of us would buy those coin types for the same...
Three years ago we had a thread on Santa Claus look-alikes: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/santa-claus.272165/ Surely we have some new coins...
Here is one of the earliest Republican coins, Crawford 17/1a, dated to 273-270 BC: [ATTACH] 19-18 mm, 6.02 grams. Litra. Helmeted head of...
I wrote the OP page on anonymous folles: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/ByzAnon/ but I didn't have a high-grade Class A2 example until this one...
Maybe you should not post all of them at once, but I'd love to see a sample (and I don't think I am the only one).
@Curtisimo , they are wonderful coins and their writeups are even better. You don't just own coins, you know them well and have researched them....
I edited my previous post so that it says "Commodus" and is now correct. Why are so many very worn coins offered by one seller? It is possible...
As has been often said on this forum, some images enough to be sure coin is fake, but images are not enough to be certain a coin is genuine....
How often will you update this sheet? It will be nice to know which cities have already been posted.
That OP coin of "Nepotian" is certainly a fake. No doubt at all. Also, if it were genuine it would have gone for five or ten times than much....
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