When the buyer pays for an auction coin, he or she pays a certain total amount (hammer price plus buyer's fee plus shipping and possibly bank or...
Sign up for TransferWise. Leu does not charge the usual wire-transfer fee for TW transfers (it's really a direct deposit) and of course no PayPal...
I am in the US. When I see European firms with high shipping costs I sometimes write before I bid and ask if there is less expensive alternative...
I just spent 5 minutes trying to discover the buyer's fee on the web pages of the upcoming Bertolami Fine Arts sale. Boy, do they bury it deep in...
Wow! That is a real beauty! Its legend is: CONSENSV SENAT ET EQ ORDIN PQR (Consensv Senatus et Equitum Ordinis Populi Que Romani) It is...
Upon his death in 14 CE, Augustus was deified. Coins under his successor Tiberius celebrated this and coins over 200 years later did too. Here is...
In 1995 a woman from New Jersey saw some ancient coins of mine on consignment at a local coin dealer in Montana and asked him if he bought ancient...
Trajan issued many coins that referenced particular conquests. I tell a short version of the story of this Parthian conquest here:...
Mine has a good pedigree. Commodus. Sestertius. TRP VI IMP IIII COS III PP in ex: LIB AVG IIII Struck Jan 1-Dec. 9, 181. [ATTACH] Ex. British...
Whoever created that graph deserves credit. Also, we might like to read the whole article. Please give us the citation.
Consider looking in your local public or university library. It is unlikely they have much up-to-date, but they will be free to borrow and might...
That is a very nice one!
I am a fan of big tetrarchal folles. Severus II (305-306-307) became Caesar in 305 in the second tetrarchy and participated in the GENIO POPVLI...
Do you mean same type of coin? I think they are two different coins and yours is very nice with lots of detail. The surface may well have been...
If I didn't already have the Rynearson book, I would order it. There is an eBay seller with it at $8 plus $3.27 shipping in the US, and he has the...
I presume that "Coin Chat" allows responses that refer to other types of coins, including ancient coins (think Julius Caesar or classical Athens)....
That is a very good question. Throughout the Byzantine period there are very many overstrikes, usually on the same denomination of a previous...
Some Byzantine overstrikes are easy to attribute. [ATTACH] This is another Heraclius and son/M, Sear 805. The symbol to the right of the M is for...
The OP coin is an overstrike of Heraclius (610-641) and son, as @kevin McGonigal noted. There is a way to try to determine the undertype if you...
I just revised my page of coin of the tetrarchy with two excellent Licinius pieces and an excellent Maximinus II....
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