I recently purchased a Seleucid bronze identified by the seller as Antiochos VIII Epiphanes. I noticed the edge has a bumpy rough area, as do...
Absolutely right. For the collector who can afford it, there are much better places for better coins. But you pay a premium for the...
Obviously not from a mint sealed bag, I wonder who was sharp-eyed enough to spot this one in the wild? Perhaps the grease filled parts first...
They are all right, of course, in saying it is a plating bubble. But, for the sake of argument, let us suppose it is a minor die chip or break....
You should start a new thread for this. It appears to be from the Mughal Empire in India in the 16th or 17th centuries.
Only the person who did it knows, but it would not surprise me if somewhere out there is another "head" with an opposite grinding so as to have...
There is a genetic quirk that makes some of us hoarders, er, collectors of interesting, rare, or beautiful things. Exactly what things varies...
She is not throwing that spear. She is scratching the back of her neck. :)
Looks to be for sure a souvenir casting. It appears there are traces of the glue that held it only the card or plaque. (The other coins appear...
TIF, Thanks for the great response! I really appreciate your time and effort! Athena it is.
The obverse is definitely not that on any that Wildwinds shows. There is no helmet. Although it does not show wll in the picture in my original...
A big thank you to everyone! I haven't found a match for the obverse yet, but the reverse clearly is Pella, and is a match for the reverse of one...
The bulls look right, but neither the letters nor the obverse look right to me. For one thing, unless the blotted out letter is a sigma, and the...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I just bought this. The seller ID'd it as "MACEDON. Thessalonica. 187-131 BC. Athena / ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚHΣ. Bull Grazing right. SNG...
Tetartemorion. Ram's head right/ lion's head; 6mm. .20 g. Seller identified it as Caria Halicarnasus, c. 380 BC. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Thanks. Learn something all the time on CT!
I'm no expert, but the faint striations at the top of the "C" on your coin make me think thread strike-through, and the shape doesn't seem quite...
I'm getting a mental image of a pirate somewhere missing an "R, R, ..., R!" It is too much a mirror image of the R above it to be accidental, and...
Paddyman98 suggested it was a BB. This was, I believe, a 22.
GM did not invent the first rotary press for coins. The Walzwerk machine was invented in the 1500s....
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