Its nam pla in Thailand. My wife uses it for many dishes. I actually like it in food. If you smell it it literally smells like wet butt, but in...
Sure its not XXI. LRB have this denotation commonly to state its 20 parts copper to one part silver.
Garum and other types of fish sauces were the stereotypical Italian food products during the Roman era. They put fish sauce on EVERYTHING and the...
I agree sir. Yours looks like a vg, the OPs looked like it had much more detail, (hair. lettering, right hand, etc.) Both are coins I would glad...
Actually, I always read Sicily and North Africa around Carthage was the breadbasket of Rome at this time. Egypt was still a foreign land, and the...
Oh...sorry thread not what I thought I was clicking on. :)
Yes, they are good, but not superior to others. I trust a CNG flip as much, and maybe a Sear cert more. Decent point, but can be achieved other...
No one in antiquity said she was beautiful, they said she was captivating. She spoke multiple languages, could speak intelligently on almost any...
Its why I refuse to use them. One, they do not guarantee the authenticity of ancient coins, (the one real value I see modern slabs providing), and...
Top one looks like its using arabic letters.
Yeah.....that is about how I feel about errors. Don't get me wrong, if you like them good for you, I like anyone liking any coins, just not my cup...
This. The port of Ostia is one of the most desired sestertii of Nero, or really of Rome. Its a very famous coin that has been copied since at...
So this was a huge White Whale for me. A number were sold 12-14 years ago it seems, then they simply went away from the marketplace. This happens...
Of course sir. Copper is easy to become blue under heat. I bring up ancient coins since there is documentation of them being recovered blue, and...
40 pounds shipping? That is simply untenable IMHO unless its a very heavy parcel.
I agree its just blue. Copper rarely can tone blue, I have seen coins coming from metal detecting come out of the ground pure blue. Blue is...
If its from an uncirculated roll, it probably is a mint error. However, if someone messed with it and then put it in an uncirculated roll experts...
I strongly agree with this. To answer your question directly OP, an error is something that happened to the coin before it left the mint. Once it...
Oh good gosh, hard to name them. Ancients do not have any hard and fast "sets" for the most part, (which is why I love it), but I always have my...
Lots of sellers are one time sellers. Their dad dies and they simply liquidate the coins. They don't know any better, and accept what the dealer...
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