Hookmoor's gone too. There seems to have been a mass exodus at about the same time. Are retailers disappointed with something going on at VCoins,...
Hi Dave, You could go to VCoins.com and enter in the rulers' names and look for similar denarii to get a sense of value. Alas, unless these are...
Perhaps they've gotten burned before by arranging alternate shipping. But I might not have pursued it if, in the terms, they didn't state,...
UPDATE: Just heard back from Savoca. They are unwilling to ship registered mail from Germany to US at buyer's risk. Oh well. Didn't hurt to ask....
I figured that with the Internet the OP could ID the rest with a ruler name. RR denarii are a little tougher for someone new to Roman coins.
RR means Roman Republic. The second coin looks to be: LUCIUS RUBRIUS DOSSENUS AR silver denarius. Struck 87 BC. Laureate head of Jupiter right;...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Here's how I described these coins in my notes. Corrections welcome: Thanks to the Christian persecutions organized by...
Ahhh! There's another one! What does that typically run?
So I'm fairly new to the world of auctions beyond eBay, having won my first coin from a European auction last month, and currently bidding on...
Thanks for the tip! I will check it out. I do have an Edward III penny, but I'd love to build a small representative collection.
Sigh. I wish medieval English coins were as affordable as Roman coins. Thanks to collecting coins, my knowledge of Roman history is better than my...
I didn't see Beast either. Hookmoor also seems to be gone. Maybe VCoins retailers just come and go.
Gimme dat Commodus in the Lion Skin. Perfect centering and great detail.
Even though I'm a Roman guy, when I think of classical coins, I think of this face. Probably my favorite coin. [ATTACH] ALEXANDER III (THE...
Well, the difficulty with soliciting this kind of advice is that collecting is not a "one-size-fits-all" enterprise. There are coins that I would...
Only you can answer that. I have purchased from FORUM auctions before because if someone were brazen enough to auction fakes on the FORUM site, a...
I just found an invoice from a Frankfurt seller a few months ago who shipped an inexpensive coin to me registered international shipping with...
Thanks for the explanation and the link Victor.
I'm inclined to think that's just some control mark. But it is an interesting parallel to a feature of the sculpture I overlooked. In the...
I'd like to learn a little bit about the "holding the head of X" iconography. To my modern sensibility, it seems a little creepy, as if one is...
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