Nice additions Bill!
Nice coin, interesting obverse look. He wouldnt last 5 minutes in my old high school.
Not big on Byzantine but if it was cheap enough I would pick it up too. Great details and patina.
Well I try to give my mom a very brief history of the emperor/empress on the coin. Obviously she finds characters like commodus, Nero & elagabalus...
My step-grandfather got me into coins in 1985. On my grandmothers side her grandfather or uncle collected cause I ended up with bags of world...
Rev: EYCE - BEIA Pietas, not veiled, standing l., raising r. hand over lighted altar and holding open box in l. hand
http://forumancientcoins.com/ http://bargainbinancients.com/zen/index.php If you have fairly deep pockets: http://cngcoins.com/...
I would say the middle one is fake. I am indifferent with the top one. The bottom I feel is real cause it has a countermark. I rarely see fakers...
It can be any number of reasons. It could be a big variety of coins within the collection, it could be something that consisted of a specialty of...
For silver I use Lemon Juice, has worked good on deposits on some coins I have gotten lately.
Agreed, when I do much modern coins I try and get NGC graded ones. I of course go for the coin in the holder & not the holderitself but if its a...
Its one of the more common ways to collect romans yes, but its also VERY expensive. Campgates are another beast also.
The cutoff area for Ancients tends to vary, for me its usually after 1000 A.D. or so. Most common? For sure LRBs, which stands for Late Roman...
Or you can go for ones Randy And DougS like, Fallen Horseman, which is a action scene on the reverse of a guy spearing a enemy....
I can say the same thing about U.S. coin collectors. Dont get me wrong, I have a decent U.S. Type set going on & still love certain U.S. coin...
Its silver, 3.2 grams, size of a penny diamater wise. This coin was $45 after shipping. This particular emperor is cheap & common & has many...
I could have gotten a 8 escudo from Sedwick for a little over $1000, bought a seated dollar & $10 gold piece instead. These suckers have gone up...
Latest ancient. Ive always wanted this particular emperor's coin featuring a neptune on its reverse. [img] Septimius Severus (193-211 AD) AR...
I have always wanted a Severus with this neptune reverse. I have lost out on a few but this one popped up from a international vcoins dealer at...
I had a ton of air tites and they were all made for u.s. size coins. There is rubber rings you can buy that go into them to accommodate the size...
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