I recommend against waxing coins.
A wonderful coin! Not only is it very rare, it is very remarkable! I wonder if the artistic convention was to show two distinct things (one horse...
Sestertii are big, but some provincials are bigger. When Leu auctioned this coin last month they described it as 40 mm and I got interested...
I wonder why. I submitted a comment before starting this thread yesterday and it still does not show up.
Edit: ALL SOLD. For a decade I was interested in coins of Roman Mesopotamia. There are several good books on the Roman East and its interactions...
Mark Fox wrote the Moneta list this: "Late last year, Turkey and Tunisia formally requested the US to impose import restrictions on a very wide...
You should not show that coin here :happy:. I can't afford to also get interested in beautiful "modern" coins and that's a real beauty.
I love the large Julian bull type. I am not attempting that, but I will pick up a new mint when the condition and price are right. [ATTACH]...
Some ancient coins indicate their denominations. Early Republican denarii have an "X" for ten, but that is not quite the same as actually naming...
I agree. It is a beautiful group with consistent high quality. I like them all. For me the best would be the Septimius Severus legion 1 (#10),...
You might add a digital image at much larger than life size to make it easy to see which coin is which when you flip through many such pages.
This tetradrachm of Roman Alexandria has emperor Claudius on the obverse and this mother, Antonia, on the reverse. Antonia was the younger...
Wow! A spectacular group--and far more than a few! I see some classic rarities and many wonderful coins. Thanks for showing us some of your...
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