Currently I have 400+ Flavian imperial and provincial silver coins and several hundred LRBs. The Flavians are in a safe deposit box, the LRBs are...
A very nice coin Z. The portrait is particularly lovely.
Yes, just the way I like 'em. Coins I mean. ;)
Lovely coin Sallent! I calculated how much $4.50 in 1975 would be worth today - $19.89. Not a bad mark-up!
I had time this evening after an early Thanksgiving dinner to catalog and upload this new acquisition. [ATTACH] Vespasian AR Tetradrachm...
The coins were not 'destroyed'. As a matter of fact, some of the coins which were tested I've seen in trade, ex Jyrki Muona collection.
The data is presented for each of the 1,136 coins tested. They are listed under the appropriate reigns by RIC and RPC number. Averages are also...
This video might wet your appetite. [MEDIA]
I highly recommend you do. So much information is crammed into this complex book. For instance, there is a whole chapter devoted to flan...
I recently acquired The Metallurgy of Roman Silver Coinage: From the Reform of Nero to the Reform of Trajan by Kevin Butcher and Matthew Ponting....
Part of the fun collecting these 2000 + year old objects is doing the research and solving mysteries. Well done Sallent!
A very fetching denarius Mikey! Congrats.
As a Flavian silver collector this sale does not personally offer anything of note. However, I will be eagerly following certain stellar coins out...
Awesome coins Sallent! I too was supposed to receive a coin today, but it decided to detour to Mississippi instead. It's nice though to...
A wonderful addition RS!! What an incredible amount of time for a domestic package to arrive, I'm glad it arrived safe and sound.
A nice 'Alexandrian' styled portrait on the Vespasian tet.
Happy Birthday!
Partly this is due to the hyper veristic style the Rome mint employed at the time, and also of course to genetics. We shall never really know how...
Ever since I picked up a copy of Ian Carradice's Coinage and Finances in the Reign of Domitian I've had a soft spot for his coinage. One gets the...
LOL! Perhaps an 'ugly' Vespasian tet will be next. ;)
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