Actually my comment has nothing to do with the people finding the coins, rich, poor, gangs etc. My comment had to do with the nation state...
Many years ago when I first started selling ancient coins, ca. 2000, I helped a friend sell about 300 hundred ancient coins that he had inherited...
Heck, I have enough trouble attributing some of the coins - provenance seems a near impossible task. Although Mr. Clay did note that one of my...
I come back to this coin again and again - just a lovely lovely sestertius, and for me anyway, Septimius' earlier sestertii are not typically that...
The small Imperial coin might be a poorly made AE4 of Honorius. I do not think it is one of the late emperors, as I first suspected from the flan.
Yes it should but I thought it would be easier to read the lettering if it was tilted this way - that there are three or four letters visible and...
I don’t think any are Byzantine - sorry for the error
I also mixed up my description! 3 should be 2!
As with anyone who handles a number of ancients that come unattributed, there are those coins which I feel should be attributable but for some...
I have a nice As of Caracalla with this reverse that I’ll post. A Severan sestertius of (I think) Caracalla - or Septimius ? with this reverse...
I have a book that has Perpetua’s diary or journal that goes through what happened in detail - the book includes a modern description of what...
Yes I am MORTOWN and MORTOWN is me - a bad name which I am afraid to change since it has a rep, at least I hope it does. At one point when ebay...
Terrific coin - i have not seen this type before - anywhere. Interesting but no way to tell who he is stomping on.
Am I allowed to say that I have been selling ancient coins on eBay using the not very good screen name “MORTOWN” since 1999? Over 10,000 sales,...
I have mentioned this before but I was lucky enough to have collected ancient coins during the glory days of the very late 90's and up to about...
Cleaning would make this coin look much bettering
Rare coin
Just saw this - it seems to be the rule that any coin you sell will go for less than you bought it for while any coin you buy will break price...
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