True. If it's a $500 accident, I can understand trying to beg the buyer's pardon. But this looks like a $50 accident for a high volume dealer, in...
Wow. How unprofessional. Even if it was an accident, the right thing to do is to honor the auction. This has to be against eBay’s rules in some...
I love those facing portraits. This one is a beauty. It probably ended up in a Gothic payoff wagon train. :cool:
Just rub some dirt on it.
Nice find, @Roman Collector. I commented on this coin type in a Celator article about Atargatis/Dea Syria and her connection to a parodic moment...
I like the intensity of G3's eye!
The NOT IN RIC site has a couple of these listed now, with the SMKS mintmark, which I now believe is my mintmark. A couple of 6-row campgates too....
Here's one from Beast coins with my diadem. He's got it as RIC VII Cyzicus 57. [ATTACH]
Yes. Victor Clark has some “pupils to heaven” city commemoratives on his website.
That’s really very helpful. Thank you. Do you know offhand if any mints other than Cyzicus issued the ETG campgate?
This process is how I discovered that I had bought a fake. This coin was the subject of a long thread here:...
Well, that’s a good description of what a mintmark is. But I just need help reading mine.
Here's another photo that may make the obverse tilt of this campgate a little clearer. A regular campgate for comparison. [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] I’d like to take this thread in a slightly different direction. I recently purchased this coin from @Brian Bucklan's...
Thanks! @Valentinian seems to have a helpful page on just about everything LRB!
[ATTACH] So I've had this coin for a while and formerly had it catalogued as a Constantine I coin, making the fairly common mistake of believing...
No coins to add here, but in keeping with the theme, the Roman poet Ovid's full name was Publius Ovidius Naso--the final name so adopted...
A lovely gift from @jamesicus [ATTACH] A purchase from @John Anthony that used to belong to @Aethelred [ATTACH] I've purchased a couple of...
“Oooh, Helena, I simply love what you’ve done with your hair! Where did you go?” “Oh, just a little place in Antioch called the Thanatos...
Well, I won't claim my gloss is infallible, and I'm basing it on your expansion of the epigraphy, which may be contested. But having a little...
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