great coins, congrats!
The Roman pound = As = Libra was 327.45 grams, see the table from Bendall below. The 29.49 gram weight is a one uncia. The 48.7 gram weight is a...
@7Calbrey interesting barrel weight. Your have a semuncia (1/2 VNCIA, 12 Scripla or 3 Solidi) commercial weight. Two Byzantine weights have the...
@Danielprice welcome to CT Ancients. I think your coin looks like this one - [ATTACH] coin from Roma auction 9, their description: Marc Antony...
great pick ups!
Nice coin Bing. It looks like Titus and Domitian threw darts at it hoping the old man would keel over and they would be in charge. My favorite...
Welcome @CoinZimm . I agree with those above about handling ancient silver coins. When I suspect a coin is crystalized, I put it in a Kointains...
I agree, the weight seems thick for a LRB. The right weight is 3.1 mm thick vs 2.1 mm for left. The sides of all the square weights are straight....
Coin weights from Old Coins I often see an ancient coin that is new to me. Most of the time, I pass on it because it does not fit my collecting...
I looked at the comment page and noticed that of the 154 comments submitted only 26 are posted on line. All of the posted comments oppose...
the mantra of coin buyers in 2020
I agree a note in your words is better than a copied note. I submitted my comments today. My Comment Tracking Number: 1k4-9hji-rw9r I did a lot...
Great coin and write-up. The research behind a new coin is always fun. Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed reading Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars, but...
nice find
Thanks for all of your help. The seller's attribution did not look right to me. No - I did not pay electrum price for the coin. I bought it...
On 5/31/20 I bought a One Semissis coin weight produced from a repurposed LRB coin Constantine (?) / Campgate. The same day, I bought a Byzantine...
I looked up 'Clair de lune' and listened while reading your post. Congrats on your new path. You made a wise decision to focus of parts of the...
My two uncia's worth - Republican coins used dots for space markers. On this coin I include the dots - M·VOLTEI·M·F If the dots are left over...
@DonnaML & @Alegandron I agree that it is not quite right. What bothers me most are the shape of the N and weight. A weight marked N should be...
[ATTACH] It looks like a one Nomisma coin weight, but the weight is wrong and the N is not as square as most I have seen. The weights were used to...
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