Yeah, that's not a bad way to do it. Another interesting idea I've heard is to try to start by getting a coin of each dynasty before you try to...
For every supposed rule I've heard for fakes (like "No one makes fakes of fourees" or "No one would bother making fakes of common coins of...
Sorry, but that doesn't really help.
Keep in mind that when it comes to Republican denarii, they would generally have two different moneyers each year (and sometimes even more people...
Yeah, that's probably the best if you want to stay in one denomination and collect emperors that people have heard of. If you don't know about...
Well you need to keep in mind that some emperors are extremely hard to get (i.e. Gordian I and II, Romulus Augustulus, Constantine XI), and some...
Well I'm 25, and I think Arditirion's a little younger than I am.
Do you have a link to a picture, or is this a physical catalog you're looking at? And is there any chance that you can convince the guy who's...
I hadn't seen these particular pictures yet. Thanks!
I agree with Doug, though I would like to point out that if the coin really have been a common Constantine type like the dealer thought it was,...
Well that's kind of cool, then. Do you know what kind of coin it was? I'm honestly curious.
What was the latter coin, exactly? Was it something from a shipwreck? And what sort of evidence did they give that Arthur C. Clarke was involved...
It looks plenty authentic to me.
Well I think the issue is that you usually see a left half/right half divide, as if one side was struck, then the other, which is consistent with...
My identification of the coin as one of Claudius Gothicus, though I was close (Quintilian ruled just afterwords and looks very much like Claudius...
Like Doug said, the reverse is a Quintillus type, so it's probably an antoninianus of the emperor Quintillus. He looks a lot like Claudius...
Good point.
That first pic shows exactly what I was talking about perfectly. Why would it end up this way if it was struck flat?
A problem with this is that I've seen scyphates that don't work with this idea well. Basically, a lot of them appear to be struck on one half,...
That means no text. I accidentally posted a response to this thread instead of one of your other ones, but I couldn't completely delete the post....
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