I did get some nice coins in group lots this year, but I think the best individual coin acquired this year is the Lucilla sestertius, a remainder...
Well, being a lover of imitations, I really like your Sabakes owl, with complete legends on the reverse, a remarkable coin for this type. Also,...
Wow! That must have been some minutes of anxiety for you - glad you found the coins. I remember several years ago (I think it was during...
I think there needs to be a distinction between coins and artifacts, especially major or significant artifacts as the Parthenon Marbles. Coins...
Good analogy!
I think the situation is a little more complicated. The permit to remove the marbles was granted by the Ottomans, who were in charge at the time....
Here's an op/ed piece by Simon Jenkins in today's Guardian that some might find interesting, on a very longstanding debate:...
Wonderful coins, Sulla80! An all star lineup in my estimation, using the baseball vernacular.
It depends. Some coins over the ages were commonly holed, so quite a few end up repaired (plugged professionally or by an uncle in his garage)....
Yes, the characters seem rather makeshift, unlike another eastern owl that I have. This coin, by the way, was in a NGC slab without any notation...
Yes, that is the coin. It is a bit of a gamble, at least in terms of the exact mint, which is unresolved and might remain so for quite a while....
I do have a couple of coins coming in from E-Sale 90, notably a tetradrachm attributed to Philistia. This is a somewhat controversial coin, at...
Here are a couple of imitations of Byzantine folles: 1. An imitation of a follis of Constantine VIII, 11th century. Ex Stephen Huston 8.86...
Actually, some of the early Swiss thalers are quite interesting. Here's one from Zurich, a guldentaler, date 1512, Dav 8771, very rare: [ATTACH]...
I thought I had a coin from Once, or one from Twice, but I don't. I do, however have a coin from Thrace! Abdera, Thrace 520-490 BC Oktadrachm...
Some fakes are showing up "stressed", with abrasions and rough surfaces produced as a means to make the fake more plausible as a genuine coin....
I have a couple of Syracusan tetradrachms from the period that the OP coin was supposedly minted in. Here's one of them: Syracuse Deinomenid...
Here's a coin that I came across on eBay today, one that was sold on August 23, 2021. The seller, based in Germany (this is not Lanz), has a...
Here's my only hacksilber ingot. This from the Late Bronze Age, Levant, 13th-10th centuries BC, and weighs 25.90 grams, the equivalent weight of...
I think this coin comes reasonably close to retaining its silver wash. There are some dark areas that I assume are oxidized silver. Maximinanus...
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