I agree that there is no way on knowing if an item is genuine. If it was found at a recorded archaeological dig and properly recorded your chances...
Congrats! That one is a keeper. Please report back on the quality of the pictures. The book is on my list, but "je ne parle pas français" so the...
TIF, I have added Clio'd to my vocabulary. Maybe next time when I hit a bump in the road, I can say Clio'd twenty times instead of sounding like...
An interesting Aes Rude, with two symbols punched into it, arrived today. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Aes Signatum + Cast Aes Signatum or Aes Rude with...
I was a bit surprised by some of the book prices in CNG's auction this week. The two copies of RRC by Crawford sold for $1600 & $1800. I thought...
Great coin! Centered, well preserved, great dies, all of the features are on the coin like beads in the head-band, folds in Victory's outfit....
I was not happy to receive an e-mail today from acsearch. They are joining the fee based archive search world. We can use their database for...
the one I want in that auction is an order of magnitude out of my league
Amazing details, condition, coin. Thanks for sharing here.
Wow, great coins C, V & C. A bit different portrait of Mark. Bing, I like your Mark and snake coin too. I have one Mark pic & it is a 2fer with...
A bit late, but here goes. Nice set of coin posts. This was a large issue, but I am a bit confused by Crawford's die count of 173 reverse dies vs...
Bing - nice coin. Post anything you find on countermarks. I received this on last week. I attempted to make a better pic of the mark. My eyes...
QUOTE="TIF, post: 2370197, member: 56859"]Severina looks familiar. Great coin, but I was thinking she looked a bit lower-brow - RHPSish -...
Sounds (and looks) like you had a good visit. It is good to get out and see some really neat stuff up close. I'll have to put the museum on my...
Nice coins, good write-up and link. You have a couple of winners.
I bought the first one from a dealer on ebay. I found it by searching for Roman coins and a junk dealer from the NW US was in the search. The coin...
Great recap of the coin show. The WS folks let me in free! I posted a few pics in the ancients thread -...
two thumbs up, one for the coin and one for de-slabbing I have two Neros [ATTACH] [ATTACH] the first was an ebay purchase advertised as a coin,...
There is some debate on this subject. Julius Caesar was the first to put his portrait on the obverse of a regular issue of Roman coinage. He was...
Interesting line of thoughts. I agree with you on the subject of needing to improve the drawing power of our hobby. You did not mention that the...
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