Thank you. EDIT: I posted below about the pedigrees.
Can you identify for us a few lot numbers of coins you regard as fakes?
I am announcing my website on Byzantine coin legends: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/legends.html It is possible to collect Byzantine coins by...
[ATTACH] After Italy was reconquered for the empire under Justinian, Syracuse, on the southeast coast of Sicily, became a Roman mint. Under...
I'm glad I got this sestertius from CNG in 2019 BC (Before Covid) [ATTACH] 32-20 mm. 28.58 grams. LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG HILARITAS RIC III...
That Katz auction is loaded with numerous fakes (see lots 257ff) and they, and biddr, have been informed by several of us. I have been told that...
I just checked about 50 coins of Crispus, Constantine II, and Constantius II and didn't find anything like sideburns. [ATTACH] Common BEATA...
Anastasius inherited a dysfunctional coinage with only a tiny 1-gram AE4 coin and gold coins, with no convenient denominations in between. He...
That link to the BnF site takes me to a coin's obverse that is not the correct coin. Their search engine was not too helpful. I finally found the...
Here is my Nicopolis city gate: [ATTACH] 26 mm. 11.79 grams. Hristova and Jekov Nikolois ad Istrum 8.23.46.3 Price and Trell 58, no photo, but...
True. I used to think Class A1 was scarce, but I do not think so anymore. Byzantine copper is often in poor condition and not of much value....
It was common for PIVS FELIX to be almost spelled out under Gordian III: [ATTACH] IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG Under Heraclius (610-641) there...
A friend of mine collected the "Cross above head" early Byzantine varieties for many years. I studied them and put them on the web for him:...
Here is an introduction to Byzantine copper coins: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/Byz/ You will find most of your types there.
Here is a Byzantine anonymous follis, Class G, attributed to Romanus IV, 1068-1071, who lost the famous battle of Manzikert (now in Eastern...
I already had the Hellenistic one and found it excellent and enjoyable. So, I just ordered two from Amazon, the Republican one and "From Caesar to...
Looking at the legend on mine, just above, I see some well-formed letters but not well-formed words. It looks like V M AΛ S L L - ... O L S C N I...
At a Roman mint when die-engravers are working day in and day out cutting dies and having developed their skills, possibly over years, we may be...
The follis of @robinjojo is far nicer than mine, but I got a hole-filler year-38 today: [ATTACH] 35-32 mm. 17.95 grams. Much of it is flat...
I wonder if that is really Galba. It is the "bust of a bald man with an aquiline nose." Very few ancient busts have their original noses--they...
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