I'm glad Pman has branched out into superb denarii. I think there is no emperor whose denarii average higher quality strikes than Maximinus Thrax,...
That is an excellent example, far nicer than most. Congratulations!
Again the US government is considering restricting the import of Greek coins. We are given a chance to comment until May 5. (See the link on the...
If you continue to collect ancient coins long enough, you can complete some mini-theme collections of special interest to you. Some day in the...
Here is an unusual Justinian (527-565) 40-nummia from Carthage with a cross on the bust. It reminds me of pictures of crusaders with their bold...
January 26 this year I posted this to the CoinForgeryDiscussionList:...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Marc Antony and Octavian, fourree denarius. 18-17 mm. 2.97 grams. prototype 41 BC, mint moving with Antony. Crawford 517/2....
Excellent coin with a well-told story. I always appreciate CoinTalk coins more when they have the story told with them. Ancient coins connect us...
Look at the color/surface of the Hanniballian mentioned in the original post. It is dark, smooth, and does not look hard. That is a surface that...
I like coins of Panticipaeum (spelled various ways) and the Kingdom of the Bosporus (= Bosporos). Perhaps my favorite is this big type [ATTACH]...
I have added some interesting and valuable ancient-coin books to my site: http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/numislit.html [This first time I...
It is really "Williams Gallery" 59715 Also, the Google map is wrong. It is half a block south of Main St. on S. Tracy (two blocks east and 2...
Some European sellers add, to all those fees discussed above, 3.5% for paying with PayPal, or a credit card. They expect a bank transfer, which I...
My page: http://esty.ancients.info/catalogs/GreekAE.html notes two sales of Virzi coins: Leu 6 (5/73) HV. MQP. "Sammlung Tom Virzi, New...
I have a friend, Dan Clark, who collected early Byzantine copper coins with the unusual feature that above the normal bust right was a cross not...
Previous posters are right. The unbroken legend makes it Valentinian II. Is it not in King's volume 5 of Roman Silver Coins? (I am away from my...
4to2centBC, thanks for posting the photos. If any of you ever get to Cambridge, England, there is a relatively unknown large gallery there, not...
I see that as of yesterday (March 24, 2016) acsearch.com https://www.acsearch.info/ no longer gives prices realized without a paying subscription...
Here's my she-wolf pediment: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Apparently several of us have this type in high grade.
If I might bid on a coin, you won't hear about it until after I have won it, if I do, and it has arrived in the mail. I don't want to drive up...
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