Full obverse strikes are horribly rare. The coin there is a supreme example of strike rarity. I don't know if its worth that kind of money, but...
Well to me that was a real softball. It was like throwing Bill a lead tesserae, or @THCoins a Kushano-Sassanid piece. :)
Samarkand Sogdian imitation of a Seleucid, (Antiochus), coin. They started out silver and degraded into copper. Its a horse's head you are seeing....
You are being too modest sir. Most of us here greatly value your opinions. :)
I own both volumes of the Spengler and Sayles books on the series. Please post the coin you are curious about. btw, I do love this series,...
I was shown a couple of methods, the easiest simply sped up what would happen naturally anyway, low heat+sulphur source+moisture. I have mentioned...
One of my favorite ancients I got in an old Bowers and Ruddy flip. I just love the extra history that comes with this old firm's name on it.
Yeah, but others here always say "never buy an unslabbed coin" and if a coin isn't slabbed they believe its not worth owning. Btw, toning has...
Yeah, its amazing how fast time and number of coins fly by once you get bitten. :)
I had a similar dealer. Ben Marlenee in Des Moines. He was a grouchy, tough SOB until you proved to him you actually were interested in learning...
A little bit of a tweener here at 47. My two year old owns a few ancients, would he be the youngest?
Nor surprisingly I don't have a pic of mine, but also not unsurprisingly still own the coin. It was a pretty little 3/4 head Larissa bronze with...
It's really sad when such coins get rejected by the coin hobby. I have pulled similar coins out of envelopes and folders that have been sitting...
I would agree. Looks like typical "bullseye" toning stereotypical of envelope stored coins. Usually if they were in old albums the reverse would...
In my estimation its very difficult. When they say fabric the only real way to "get" that is to have them in hand. Italian coins just are struck a...
Do you blame them though? Seems to me all risk and no reward. Do this 100 times maybe 99 are fine, but that 1/100 causes problems, consternations,...
They say runic on these for the Sogdian writing, but a rune is in reality the same as a tamgha. Sogdian coins have carried tamghas from the moment...
As much as I hate anyone who does that, what does that have to do with his numismatic research? I bet you a ton of high profile numismatists do...
I agree. While he was a trailblazer in many areas of US numismatics, and was a contemporary of the likes of David Bowers, his research is also...
I think the first three are fine, but the last one looks like a fake Antinos. Edit: Based upon the duel bust reverse, I am not suspicious of all...
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