Justinian I?
It appears they have been cleaned down to the metal.
#1 is Seleucus II Antioch 246-226 BC Obvs: Laureate head of Apollo right. Revs: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΣEΛEYKOY, Bull standing l. I have one, just not...
It's common for those, but a size\weight can help determine value.
At a show that I rented a booth at a US collector came up to me and said "Now you have real coins", wondering why he said that, I asked him about...
Islamic, but not my area. Sorry:(
I'm guessing he is referring to rarity relative to all coins of that volume. The scale in terms of actual numbers known is irrelevant anyway as...
I think the phenomenon you are referring to happens when at the last seconds several bidders submit in which case theirs is higher, resulting in...
I'm not sure why, there was a greater emphasis on religion though. The coins may have suffered, but they did have good artist. [ATTACH] San...
[ATTACH] Heraclius Constantinople 615 to 638 AD AR Hexagram Obvs: dd N hRACLIчS hЄRA CONSt, Heraclius and Constantine seated on double throne....
Smoothing is bad because it is an attempt to either repair modifications on the coin or trying to modify the coin. I think 95%+ of collectors...
It would be over 30 grand for me. I don't see it as being feasible in the long run, there are too many ancients out there with new ones being...
Gold and silver were scarce in the Italian peninsula, so bronze was used to make transactions. So they were considered Italic bronze currency. If...
Yes that is what I meant, thank you for the correction TIF.
The lighting is bad(hasty photo), It is a gray color exposing the bronze where the find dirt was removed during shipping:mad:. Typically you will...
Saw this post and thought I had one, looked around and dug this up from the closet [ATTACH] This weighs 3110g or 9.5 liberals. Haeberlin #7...
Looking at the facial closeup is appears to be evenly worn down as if done by artificial wearing, but maybe the photo is deceiving? Overall it...
It's amazing that someone would actually make a hole to remove the countermark. I've never seen that, thanks Doug!
@Nemo haha that person really disliked Nero :yack:
Can also flag the item as ebay does not allow the selling of replicas without disclosure. I've done it several times. Though it doesn't appear to...
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