Yours is also pre-1800, all the better! :happy::woot::D
It only costs $5 for Trueview? I could care less about the slabbing part, but the coin photography services would be useful.
Ah, I forgot about that! I was meaning more along the lines of coins for the collection..
Neat! Sounds like you have a good wife. It's always nice to treat oneself. Well done! In addition to what he's getting me, my Dad told me to...
I collect ancients only* (a few cool moderns here and there, modern being 1500's to the end of struck coinage), and stated grade isn't terribly...
Are you giving any coin gifts for Christmas? Here's mine: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/coins-being-given-as-christmas-presents.409313/...
It's interesting how ancient and U.S./modern collectors go about things in the opposite way, generally speaking. 1) Cleaning - I believe cleaning...
I opened my Saturnalia present, as soon as I got it :D. I had to wait about two weeks to reveal it.
I'd now guess Heraclius and the Nikomedia mint.
What a thoughtful gift! :happy:
[ATTACH] DEMETRIOS I SOTER AR silver tetradrachm. Antioch, struck circa 156-155 BC. Diademed head right. Reverse - ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ,...
Yes, there are advantages and disadvantages of slabbing. I can understand wanting the storage to be uniform. The folks at numisforums recently...
I'm not into moderns, but the Guernsey is my favorite of the lot; pretty cool!
That's partly why I collect ancients. I'm interested in the history. Take Heraclius and his nemesis, King Khrusru, for example. Both the...
Very kind of you. Your examples aren't exactly shabby, and your Justinians are better than any of mine. I bought it from a vcoins dealer, later...
By the way, www.wildwinds.com is a halfway decent place for ID'ing stuff. The pictures are generally rather small.
I'm voting for the Alexandrian Vitellius, quite a hard one to find.
The .pdf is $30-something,by the way, and is really cool to have for quick reference. Annoyingly, Sear Roman Coins and their Values IV (and...
[ATTACH] Here's a decent-condition early Heraclius. The provincial mints had an evencruder /wavier cuirass. However, I think I see more than one...
How cool! A nice Sear 882 was always on my bucket list. Here's mine. [ATTACH]
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