Here is mine, with Gamma in the middle: [ATTACH] Doug's link tells you about the code on these "coded" coins. I, too, wrote about the code:...
I agree with both @red_spork and @dougsmit. I think it is a fake. Others might have a different opinion. But, why buy a coin you are not sure...
In the OP I wrote This morning sent me their "new listings" in my areas and, low and behold, that coin was listed and when I clicked on the link...
I really like that attitude. Too often collectors (especially US coin collectors) are seduced by high grade alone. Magazines like Coin World send...
If you have an ancient coin to sell, how would you price it? One eBay seller has often been mentioned on CT as listing coins for ten times their...
@ValientKnight, you did a great job cleaning that coin. It looked terrible before and looks good now.
I got this one in 1981 from a firm named Olympus. I liked it for the flan size, which was large enough to have almost all the lettering. As you...
The first is a Roman Republican denarius of P. Nerva, 113 or 112 BC with a famous voting scene: [ATTACH] Crawford 292/1. Sear 169. 18-6 mm. ROMA...
[ATTACH] Ancilla to Classical Reading, by Moses Hadas. This one is slow going. I keep it by my bed for filling those last minutes before we are...
Yes.
There is a variety with Neptune indicated by the legend NEP RED [ATTACH] 31 mm. COS III NEP RED (Thanks for safe return of Hadrian to Rome after...
@ancientone and @ancientcoinguru are right. Sturdier shelves, anchored to the walls. The photos showed his new anchoring system.
@TIF showed an excellent Alexandrian drachm of year 15 with Alexandria welcoming Hadrian. Here is my tetradrachm example of the same theme:...
Of course we are interested!
I bought my first coin of Magnentius in 1975. I kept buying them because I think they are neat, but it is time to pass them along. On my main page...
"Coins of the Peloponessos in the BCD Collection" auction LHS 96, 8-9 May 2006 is the latest word on coins from the Peloponessos. It is a...
Once again, here is a link to my site on Max Thrax: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Maximinus/Maximinus.html Here is one of the images there. The site...
Long ago I wrote a page about buying: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/buying.html I just updated it a bit. A few weeks ago I moved my...
I would recommend the best CONSTANTINOPOLIS or VRBS ROMA (c. 300-337 AD) you can find on eBay. Yes, eBay has lots of fakes, but not of those...
@Ajax, thanks for the link to Beast's article on crosses. For Christian symbols on Roman coins, see my site:...
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