@Parthicus, good luck with the sale. For your sake, I hope all the coins go high (except the ones I bid on). ;)
If the timing were possible, I'd agree with @TIF. If the timing were the other way around and @ro1974 no longer had his coin, I'd say it was his...
I think that, for a crack to be that long, the coin must be fragile and have been weak from the beginning. I have a few like that and am very...
Here is a small piece, 11 mm and only 0.95 grams. [ATTACH] There is no lettering. It looks a lot like a small coin, but without lettering I...
Something is wrong here. If they are not the same coin, one or both are fakes. As @red_spork noted, the unusual centering and flan shapes are the...
Here is a Gordian III of Viminacium struck "ANIIII" = year 4 = 242/3 AD. [ATTACH] 28 mm. 21.24 grams. IMP GORDIANVS PIVS FEL AVG (a Regular...
BCD used his initials (although he is well-known anyway).
Here is a drachm of Seleukos I, a successor of Alexander. At the division of Alexander's empire two years after Alexander died, in 321 he was...
Gallienus has the neat "zoo series". Here is one of the tougher ones in it: [ATTACH] SOLI CONS AVG Bull right. RIC 285. Cunetio, 1405. Ex...
Here is an uncommon Julia Domna type: [ATTACH] IVLIA AVGVSRA MATRI CASTRORVM . "mother of the camps" or "camp mistress" empress seated left...
I prefer the solution mentioned by Doug. Hypothetically, if there was a bidder at 1500, you at 2200, and a non-paying bidder at 2400, you should...
Finley's book was published in 1973 and initiated a long and contentious discussion of the ancient economy. A book with interest to numismatists...
[ATTACH] The first is a slim hardcover volume (125 pages) with stories of all the Greek kings and a portrait coin for each. 1937. Very nice...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] L. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus.AR Denarius, 62 BC. Veiled and diademed head of Concord right; PAVLLVS LEPIDVS CONCORDIA around....
What is the alternative?
Here an original and a barbarous imitation of the OP type, but for Constantius II: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] AE21 (4 mm smaller than the large AE2...
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I've been at it over 40 years and still enjoy collecting a little bit of everything, even though I do have specialities about which I have the...
Some people have made collections of ships on coins and eventually sold them. I know of two such sale (sail :happy:) catalogs. These notes are...
Here is my speculation. I acknowledge that I am not a Latin expert. FIL AVGG, I think, should refer to one "son" of the two (or more) Augusti...
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