Interesting group of coins and tickets Red. I presume the first two are also ex RBW, as they have his typical envelope and information. The...
Ah, thanks John.
I can only think of one dealer named Fred who's about Doug's age. Shore??
I usually spend the waiting-time entering the shipped coins into my database so that there are tags anticipating their arrival. I often research...
I made the same mistake while in school, also circa 1985. I needed cash and decided I'd sell my ancient coin collection to help pay tuition....
Very sorry for your loss, Gavin. I just received this example of the same type a few days ago. [ATTACH]
Here are the wolf and twins from an earlier Roman Republican bronze. The coin is an AE Sextans of the semi-libral reduction, struck 217-215 BC....
My targets are ex Dattati and illustrated in Dattari's rubbing of his collection from the early 20th century. So no worries here!
Send me a PM. I may be live.
I completely agree with Doug's statement, and I've made similar statements in the past. For my collecting style, the best approach is to buy...
BM is simply describing their coins in accordance with Crawford, which is the current RR standard catalogue. Don't assume any independent thought...
I agree. That's why we're debating! :smuggrin: I make no claim of irrefutable correctness.
The blogging scholar is a "she." She also points out that many in the trade (CNG for one, as noted by TIF) are now describing the disputed item...
I think that's because in many cases the dot (compass point) gets obliterated by the cap. It's only in the cases where the cap is higher off the...
Very interesting. I'm a little cynical - for instance the story in the article about the Tiberius denarius sounds absurd to me. I would like to...
I'm curious about that die. Do you know whether that's a genuine Roman die? It was my understanding that forger's dies have survived to modern...
I missed your mention of visible flans earlier. Is that really a flan or just a compass hole? Many Roman coins have visible dots in the center of...
You should have heard me while I was typing.....KIDDING!! :joyful:
Yes, I was overstating that a bit. Certainly the Moneta obverse with other, obvious tools provides contextual justification to identify it as a...
Thanks. Sorry if I was a bit feisty about it (having a bad day). As you've seen, many dealers and researchers are coming around to this way of...
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