Thanks! :-) They didn't keep great records during the excavation and many coins were melted down(!) but it is estimated that roughly 1,000 were...
Coins do somehow end up finding their proper home! I had a very similar scenario happen at the New York International show in January. I was...
That would be some excessive tooling if it's now identified as something from 1783-1795!
The best description I've been able to find is: "Dr. E. P. Nicolas was a well-known French collector of Roman coins, who was renowned for his...
I underbid this coin to the infamous Clio, primarily interested in it for the pedigree. I later learned his max was faaarrrr over mine which...
This is a very important point to make. For US coins, PCGS guarantees coins and will remunerate you if it turns out to not be authentic. In this...
The trepidation of slabbed ancients mirrors that of US colonial and copper coinage. There was a ton of pushback against slabbing those issues...
Congrats! As others have said, any portrait coin of Julius Caesar is a worthy and exciting purchase.
A fabulous coin: the way that the artist took advantage of the round canvas by curving the reverse scene is really stunning. Not to mention the...
A fabulous gift indeed - they don't make gas stations like they used to! A few of the remaining types are on my wantlist but have either not come...
I used a hammer to shatter a slab with an aureus in it this morning so you can probably guess which side of the fence I'm on :) Buy coins from...
Thanks! And yes, it is a die break in the laurel wreath. One of the other examples from the same pair of dies exhibits the same break - when I was...
Great write up! I too like the reverse Athena - a very intriguing mark to use, considering how closely it matches the Athena obverses from other...
I finally managed to cross the Emesa Stone type of Elagabalus off of my list after a long hunt, with the coin arriving this morning from a private...
Thanks! One book which never fails to put a new purchase in its place is the sister book to your Roman Coins: Kraay & Hirmer's Greek Coins:...
Definitely not! But it was from a US dealer that didn't know/couldn't care less about what they had. Needless to say, I quite happily paid their...
Absolutely, and it's especially useful to understand the idiosyncrasies of particular auction houses as everyone shoots coins differently....
And, here's a bit of Photoshopping on the original ACR/Bertolami image to try to make it a bit more Heritage-like. Note that in all cases, I'm...
I also think they are photography differences, as surprising as that is. I recognized the coin from both sales: it's coming up at Heritage and was...
A GoFundMe or KickStarter would probably be pretty effective for this.
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