Kind of goes for all ancients unfortunately. Material on the market continues to decline and prices escalate....
I would agree looks much more like those wide eyed Commodus portraits than Didius Julianus IMHO.
Good thing about white coins is you can always put a layer of toning on them. ;)
Fair point, yet with toned coins its MUCH harder to tell if the coin has been messed with and retoned to hide it. I would grant you most coins 50+...
Coin shows 35 years ago I would say white was the preferred coin. It started changing about 1985-1990 IMHO. In 1990-1995 it was a toss up in my...
Not years away. Pick up any relatively common Byzantine anonymous bronze. all have a picture of Christ, and most spell his name out.
What is the description of the reverse. That is what looks unusual about the coin. Btw, be careful with RIC rarity scales. They only looked at...
Good gosh, there are tons of them. To answer your question though, do you want only US coins or others? If US coins only, things like silver or...
I agree. Definitely late Roman. You could change the slip to read "Late Roman, circa 330-390" and be much more precise. At 15mm I would call it an...
I believe it's cleaner used on their planchets. But overall just poor manufacturing practices. I am sure there are ways to minimize or eliminate...
I have bought a lot of junk in my day. Today, though, I like your logic but think it might be more items like current year pandas and other...
Nemo, I only have a hardcopy version he updated to include mine and other recent coins. I will ask him at our next club meeting if we can put his...
Weiss is a snake. He wrote some holier than thou garbage preaching what not to do when he went out of his way. He intentionally knew the coin he...
Fantastic Byzantine. Not worth $1200 IMHO, but at a large auction $600 would not surprise me in the least. It's a $300 coin from a common mint.
Lots of day trading in all commodities on the CME. Like Mike said, many do it professionally. However, that is a game best suited working for a...
Well that is a more fair statement. I would say the III and IV's probably circulated more in the west, but especially by the time of the IV's the...
There has been two major hoards in which Type I's showed up, and both were found in western Turkey. I have seen many other hoards being found in...
Um, why? Were they right in the immediate past? I do not recall any of them correctly calling the high rise and fall of pm. Not that many here did...
Nice Type II Doug. Bill Daehn in his paper, (unfortunately for some reason its not on our website, I will try to correct that), goes over all 4...
I just read an interesting article last night linked from Esylum. It said India is trying to get their temples to sell their gold holdings to...
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