Nice Crocodile and thanks for sharing your cleaning results. My Nimes are halves. I did post a large dupondius today. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I recently added an interesting piece of cast bronze to my collection of Roman Republican coins, cast bronze money from Central Italy and Roman...
Great Siliqua's @Bing and others. I do not have late silver coins like yours, but I did win a scale weight in a recent auction that is part of a...
I am not a fan of timed online auctions, but I can see where they might be easier to run. I bid with 60 seconds left on lot 1544 and lost by one...
Unsold lots can be a good place to find coins. I picked up a 1 Semissis scale weight in the Leu auction. I bought an unsold coin of the same...
My two favorite were: Postumus and Constantius Chlorus. The Postumus portrait was great. The CC had an interesting reverse.
This is me! When caught, I buy yarn or chocolates. You can see I have been a bad boy. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] The tray of...
Congrats. I have shown my owl upgrade several times here, including in another thread today. I do have a couple of others. I bought this tiny two...
This will be the second show on the west side of town. It is just east of Hwy 6 on Richmond. NEW LOCATION WEST OAKS FELLOWSHIP EVENT CENTER...
We have a coin show in Houston scheduled for June. Ed confirmed today that he plans to have the show. It is interesting the show in Ft Worth the...
great piece and from a good collection!
Lots of good comments, thanks. I am aware that the Old Testament Shekel was a measure of weight. You can tell that by reading the two passages...
Interesting frog. What is its weight? I checked the link I posted and could not make it to the weights shown above... too many pages. This one...
When was the word Stater used to describe a weight or coin in Athens? I do not know the answer, but the weight below suggests that it was in use...
congrats @Gary R. Wilson
I agree, the RR bronze collection was amazing. I do not remember seeing that much detail on RR bronze in one auction. It was hard for me to tell...
Congrats on V years! [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I agree. Shill bidding is something that is not legal, but hard to prove. I like to bid live, but make pre-bids for what I am willing to pay when...
That is a guess on my part. I have seen weights with lines, but not a modified coin like that.
your modified coin is about the weight of a solidus and might have been used as a coin weight
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