I'm afraid we may have missed the point... A better question to ask would be "what makes a 1909 S VDB more historical than a 1909 or a 1909 S...
No, definately not a curl based 2. If it were, the base would, well... curl. (don't know how to better describe it) There should be a picture in...
The 1st one is Roman: Emperor Valentinian AE3, Thessalonica mint. TES in exergue, V in left field, * over B in right field. 375-378 AD. Reference:...
By the way, 2s 6d would be a halfcrown. :-D
Hmm, I hadn't heard of that before. Where'd you find that out? Still, I'm pretty sure that the cap seen on US coinage is descended from the...
Colors look rather nice to me. Beyond my collection, in fact. Lol.
Good god, its practically jumping up and down screaming "I'm fake! I'm fake!" All of his coins look to be fake.
To answer the question in the thread title - probably on a stamp forum! ;)
Close, but not quite. You're thinking of Roman slaves. See my reply in another topic:
I feel exactly the opposite. I for one would not have half the collection I have today were it not for ebay. It opens areas of collecting (whether...
Crack it, hands down. :-D
Ah, my bad, I see the question now. Bonedigger - the one you showed is really close, but wildwinds isn't detailed enough to identify all of these...
Its definately genuine, but I can't confirm Bonedigger's attribution, as I can't read the exergue or the obverse legend in the picture. Go here...
Wouldn't it be incuse if it were a hammer job? (I too doubt its authenticity, I just think theres a different explanation)
They're all AE3's most likely, we don't know the exact names of the denominations. Also, the Julian II was minted at Thessalonica, Epsilon...
Oh thank goodness you said smooth rim. I missed that at first and was going to ream you out for stupidly buying circulating coins. ;) (My...
Oh yes, they'd be evil. But he wouldn't make much selling foreign clipped planchet errors. :-D
This is from a paragraph of a paper that I have yet to send in to the ANA Journal. (Give me time! Lol). Although the paragraph is regarding an...
Not exactly a square coin, but a square flan at least. Its a Philip I sestertius from 248 AD. The quality of the Roman mints was seriously...
I find that olive oil goes better on salads than on coins. Trust me, I clean ancients. Lol. In my opinion, acetone is cleaning, hands down. But...
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