Great coin! The reverse inscription is NEAPOLITWN. Yours is nice too, Zumbly. It is MSP I, 328 (Gamma behind Apollo/IS below bull, X monogram...
Just over 10 years. I started with ancients, never collecting US or world.
I think you're right and that the case does imply a guarantee, even if they have a disclaimer on the website. I think they could be susceptible...
Very true. For high-end stuff, however, I'd want to compare with specimens in public collections and good provenances (as many as possible), no...
How's the NGC library? Must be pretty decent.
Me too. I'm talking specifically big money coins. I think I would fear I'd damage an FDC aureus or something similar, and opt for the slab to...
If I were a big money investment player I'd probably slab my coins. They aren't for every coin but I see their purpose. I think we'll see prices...
According to my notes, ACR E-Auction 28 lot 12.
Your first coin is a plate coin in Potamikon, number 343 in our catalog so Sambon 663; Taliercio IIIa.16; MSP I, 343, featuring Acheloios Sebethos...
Great coins, TIF. It is really interesting to see a Christian emperor pay homage to Tyche and the local river god on his coinage!
I'm not sure. The first place to look would be LIMC. There is an online databases but it is difficult to navigate.
I only have one youthful river god and it just so happens that it is paired with a man-faced bull: [ATTACH] From Panormos, 5th-4th century BC....
I have no Etruscan coinage but here are some situla fittings featuring Acheloios (only one belongs to me, the other belongs to my good friend and...
Great post. I wonder if the bull from Lucania is a river god or Poseidon himself (as on the obverse), or if not him, just an associated symbol...
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