Looking at all the parallel scratches on it I would say someone cleaned it with a brass brush, which is common with bronze coins. The field...
Welcome Sapphire! There are so many interested aspects to ancient coins you never get bored.
Love the depiction of the elephant. :-)
No one knows where these dies came from?
I love that figurine! Looks like a nice Domitian as well.
Okay thanks. Reading on my phone instead of my desktop computer makes it hard to see these details.
Another very interesting write up!
What days are people going? Thursday is the best in some ways followed by Friday. A lot of dealers leave at lunch on Sunday. I will try to...
I can see how we can tell which deceased emporer is being honored but how can we tell which living emporer is doing the honoring?
Does anyone know the story behind this set of fake dies? Like who collected them and how they got them? Some high resolution pictures of each...
The heaviest one I see is 6.59. Mine is 9.1, which seems pretty far off. I hope you are right and it is just an outlier. Maybe they grabbed the...
Lets hear it for the Rhodes Crew! [MEDIA] [ATTACH] John
Your image is a lot better TIF, thanks! I see Nike's hair is styled differently and her legs are at different angles. The PAN side looks like...
Well, I fell in love with this Pan/Nike Hemilitron a while back:...
In 20 years of going to the FUN shows I have not run into a full time ancient dealer I would want to avoid. I would check them all out and see who...
Thank you! I actually find all the detail showing on the penny to be interesting. I would never have thought as a kid collecting wheat pennies I...
Seems like an impractical shape for money. What is the reason for the unusual shape, was it functional somehow?
I missed that thread! I think you are correct and it is the same coin. That was way too easy. :-)
I love really small coins. It used to annoy me when uncleaned groups contained these miniscule little count fillers. Now I always look at them...
The reverse is especially nice.
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