We read about finds and compensation in England many times a year. How come we almost never hear about hoards found in France and "fair...
Ah! Apparently someone thinks/hopes laws can eliminate damage. Really? My previous post was arguing for a realistic approach. I like...
That is an argument, which archaeologists should acknowledge, for changing national laws to be more like those in England, where far more finds...
[SOLD] If a book or article is old enough, it is out of copyright and Google may have scanned it and put it on the web. It seems some people...
The bandwagon tells us this coin is nothing like it was originally. I disagree. (Okay, you can pile on now.) Look closely at the Elsen picture...
Dr. Alan Walker of Nomos in Switzerland regularly sends out notifications of upcoming sales and results of recent sales. Sometimes he includes...
Now, for me in Chrome, clicking on the image does bring it up in a window where "Save image as" works. I don't know how anything could have...
Okay. I went to View, Developer, Inspect elements and the upper sub-window came up "elements." It had many lines, but the images were in links...
Right. That is a problem for me, too. I did not solve it. I was able, with some searching, to find a clickable link to the original obverse image...
It worked as usual for me. Yes. That's how it works. [ATTACH] For example, I saved this very rapidly.
I use a Mac and chrome. I just tried saving seven images of ancient coins from seven different sellers and all worked as usual with "Save image as".
The very common VRBS ROMA type of c. 330-337 is also commonly imitated. Here are three from Britain next to an official example from Siscia....
I already have a scale for weighing coins. For years I've been using a clear ruler for measuring diameters. Finally I asked for and got this:...
The very common CONSTANTINOPOLIS type from c. 330-337 under Constantine is also commonly imitated. I have seen very many at coin fairs in England....
[ATTACH] Here is another CONSTANTINOPOLIS /P R coin. The bust is far from identical to, but similar to, the OP silver piece with "K". Helena has...
[ATTACH] Salonina, wife of Gallienus, who reigned 253-268. SALONINA AVG DEAE SEGETIAE, goddess in temple RIC Salonina, joint reign) 5. Sear...
They are superfluous to experienced collectors, but some of the market for ancient coins (some of it with a lot of money) consists of new...
Also Heraclea as the OP group, but the mintmark begins "SM". [ATTACH] 20-18 mm. 2.84 grams. (I'm sorry the photo is out of focus.) PROVIDENTIAE...
It is, of course, up to the individual whether a "details, cleaned" coin is good enough to collect. However, personally I don't much mind cleaned...
Wayne Sayles wrote a book, Classical Deception. The OP type of Constantius II https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=5292&lot=1009 is pictured...
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