I do not claim to be an expert. Others may have better responses. I take a (canvas) briefcase with a carrying strap. It is big enough for your...
@Curtisimo , that is a wonderful writeup. Coins illuminate history and that coin is more inspiring than most. Types like DANVVIVS that are...
Run of Sternberg catalogs, all pre-internet [Sternberg SOLD, the rest still available]. Triton I, II, and III. Other CNG catalogs (pre internet)....
I can't claim I knew everything about the argenteus before I bid. Many of the details in the OP were discovered after I got the coin. However, I...
Good idea. Buy better ones, not slabbed, and sell off the slabbed ones that have been replaced. There are people who are now like you used to...
That certainly is a good example! That is an excellent coin (even if not graded with magic letters that have power to transform a coin) at a...
I have an Abafil tray and like it for having a few coins around, but I don't store coins in trays--my coins are in the bank in plastic flips in...
Some collectors want their coins slabbed. Ancient-coin collectors mostly don't. I have argued that slabs make it hard to see the coin--not because...
There are great catalogs there that I'll bet most CT members have not heard of. For example, I see three labeled "TNA" (modestly called "The...
Thanks for giving that reference. I just ordered it on Amazon. I could not find it anywhere else. It will be coming from Sweden.
I love catalogs and have since the 1970s. I admit, research is far easier now. I remember taking notes by hand on paper on coin values and having...
Neither is the obverse which is far from "choice". Delmatius is not uncommon in much better condition. [ATTACH] Too glossy to photograph well!...
[ATTACH] Delmatius, Caesar 335-337 Struck 336 16 mm. 1.31 grams. 6:00 FL DELMATI-VS NOB CAES GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS Two soldiers either side of one...
Here is a very common reverse type for Constantine with an unusual decoration on the shield on the obverse. [ATTACH] RIC Sisica 61 with an...
Here is one of the OP type. [ATTACH] 20-19 mm. 7.05 grams. Seleukos I, 312-280 BC Minted at Seleukia on the Tigris in the "late 280's" winged...
It seems Roman coins suit this thread more than Greek coins, but there are some very common Greek coins. This is perhaps the most common type of...
Here is a poem by the famous English poet Thomas Hardy, who lived in Dorchester, written on a visit to Italy after visiting a Roman theater at...
No ancient coins are more common than those of Constantine, and this is a very common type of his. [ATTACH] 18-17 mm. 3.20 grams. CONSTANTINVS...
Here is Claudius II arriving to Rome in 268: [ATTACH] IMP C CLAVDIVS AVG ADVENTVS AVG, Claudius riding horse left, raising right hand in...
@Voulgaroktonou , what a group of rarities! Any one of the first five would be very difficult to find in those grades and the last, Constantine...
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