If they all have the corrosion pit in the body of the sea creature, they can't all be genuine. I found the original coin in some online catalog,...
Here is my limited understanding of a devious forgery technique. A giveaway of the more sophisticated transfer die fakes is that they also...
That is a sweet Metapontion, Terence! Good choice.
Great Greek choices. Keep them coming. :-) My first Greek coin was this ugly one, but it was all I could afford back in college ($30 in 1984)....
That Probus is pretty "SXXI"! :-) I have no coins from Ticinum that I know of. I think most people here have many sub-collections they add to...
That is a good question Doug. I knew it was a stretch keeping old Eucratides I in the photo. :-)
@TIF : you got some pretty good pictures of them while entombed. The toning on both those shows up much better raw. I had a hard time avoiding...
Here are a few Greek Tetradrachms minted during the Hellenistic period: [ATTACH] These are all mid-second century BC. John
Thanks for the informative post and great coins! John
That is a very nice Populonia! You are a fan of the Etruscan coins, right? Don't see them too often. John
I bought this coin last summer encapsulated by NGC. I was keeping it entombed because a dealer I knew had another Myrina specimen, also...
They are all picked over starting with the people who found them.
Wait, I thought collecting ancient coins was our therapy! I know it is for me. :-)
Nice set of scores. I really appreciate that probus left us so many interesting coins to collect now. I have found many good ones in uncleaned...
The ancients must have used people with small fingers and good eyesight to STRIKE these...
I look carefully at each ancient coin for wear, centering, strike, surface condition, artistic style and compare to other examples of the issue....
Amazing how much they look like living people even if they don't always capture the look of the ancient sculptures quite right. I think the Domna...
Have you ever traded with this person before and gotten authentic coins? I would be careful because his story about when he bought them when they...
Picture?
2007!!!!! Penalty Box. :-)
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