TIF, I got my shipping notice from Pecunem 40 Feb. 11.
Feb. 9 I ordered some books from Spink's in London and they arrived this morning, Feb. 12, to me in Montana. FedEx deliveries are remarkably...
Has anyone else experienced significantly longer postal shipping times from Germany recently? I live in the western US and have shipments coming,...
Constantine made Christianity legal. Theodosius made it illegal to not be Christian. I have loved his types and am offering seven different types...
Under Andronicus II most flans are badly split, as seen above. Here is one with both a split flan and an error strike -- a brockage! [ATTACH]...
I agree with Herberto and others who noted the original coins are of poor quality. I would not be surprised if in bulk coins like those could be...
I have seen group lot photos of ancient coins, maybe somewhat out of focus suggesting an amateur seller, with a number of typical common low-grade...
As Doug noted the TRP number was incremented every year and is used for dating when available. Usually it changed on December 10, whereas COS...
Doug is right. The vCoins Geta story got dates wrong. Look here for a short page with the correct dates and the story of Geta's evolving portraits...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] An amazing overstrike of a Roman provincial coin. One of the very best overstrikes and remarkably clear....
I have collected late Roman AE seriously for over thirty years. I am now offering coins from my collection at prices I think you will find are...
Here is an article on a small find in Wales:...
I am selling an excellent silvered Maximian follis (Genius has six-pack abs) http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/Tetrarchy.html and numerous Roman...
The OP was a small "galley" piece. In Britain the galley type was already imitated before the size was reduced. [ATTACH] Constantius II...
As you can tell from my username, I like Roman coins from the period of Valentinian and later. I have added ten from my collection (which has been...
Crawford wrote the standard work on Republican coins you hear about all the time. He also wrote another fascinating work "Coinage and Money under...
That's quite a story!
I live far from any city with a coin show. Every few years I get the itch and travel to the Summer ANA (Chicago 2015 and 2014 and Boston in 2010...
[ATTACH] Larissa, Thessaly. c. 395-344 BC. Lovely style drachm of 20 mm and 5.73 grams. There are many Larissa pieces in poor stype and this one...
If there were an award for CoinTalk ancient-coin MVP, I'd vote for Doug. His posts are interesting, educational, entertaining, expand the horizons...
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