@arnoldoe , thank you for the URL.
That seller is on fakesellers lists such as this one: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/fakesellers.html
Yes, that one is similar. Can you give us a URL for it? I'd like to see more about it.
Even so, it is far from flawless. The headless body is small, the facing heads have few details, and Perseus does not look strong. The sword is...
I wouldn't quite say that. The universe of discourse was "sober transactions". You must be right that "always" is too strong, but if we get...
I searched acsearch and found no examples with all of these headless body all on the flan some details of the medusa head some details of...
I don't know how to do that. My OP mentioned that possibility, but I didn't know how then and I still don't know.
I don't think location is much of a handicap. With CT I am just a post away from most of my coin friends and the web has 100 times as many coins...
No, I'm sorry to say.
Thanks for posting the link. I read it, and had read many of the cited earlier articles, and it makes sense. I agree that our evidence is...
I have an extensive library of old catalogs, and it being summer, I have been looking through old catalogs (especially Spink catalogs) and I can...
I have collected fourrées for thirty years. I wrote a website on them in 2002 and it has an extensive bibliography (not updated for about a...
The OP article of July 28 begins "Six statues dating back 2,000 years were discovered Saturday in the ruins of the ancient Greek city of Magnesia,...
The context was at least every Byzantine-empire transaction involving gold. Usually the official strike of a gold coin is regarded as an official...
The OP [original post] CONSTANTINOPOLIS type is historically significant. For a short article on the coin type see:...
Here is a list of many places to buy ancient coins: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/dealers.html
He probably wrote it somewhere, but my statement is from having him tell me personally when I was at the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge.
Whether this is the case has been the subject of scholarly dispute for decades. I know; I was closely involved with numerous die studies and...
Many scholars, including the late Philip Grierson (a Byzantine expert), have asserted that gold was always weighed in transactions. When a coin is...
I think this piece was meant as a decoration, not a coin, and not made for profit. You have all seen a belly dancer with a belt of gold "coins"...
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