"As is" literally means what you see is what you get, no returns, period. That's why it is very important to do your homework before bidding....
The group lot, #1736, from Roma E-Sale 88 arrived yesterday. This is a lot of 6 Byzantine folles, of Justinian I, Phocas and Heraclius. This lot...
Thank you for the link to the article. It is easy, with the passage of time, to forget or block out the dispossession, isolation, persecution,...
The Greek god of victory, Nike, the model for the angel on the 50 and 2 pesos, was a popular one depicted on coins in the ancient world. Nike is...
That's a nice, bold counterstamp.
Nice coin! I thought I had a 1921 2 pesos, but apparently not. I must have sold it with other coins when I was raising cash. This is a tough...
Clearly a case where the cure killed the patient.
That's right - they are inert, and they are hard as concrete. I imagine that the coin must have been in a hoard, and moisture and soil...
Those deposits look like accumulations of cuprite, Cu₂O, an oxide of copper. They are extremely hard to remove and I don't recommend even trying;...
Thank you. It was possible back then to cherry pick these coins, there were so many of them. The dealer charged at premium, which was quite...
Yes, that design has been used in currency as well. Thank you for mentioning that and posting some nice examples.
Ever since the first minting of this magnificent gold coin, the 50 gold pesos, with its beautiful obverse and reverse designs, have graced...
I took an image from the current HJB BB Sale 217 and used the haze removal tool in Photoshop. The one on the left is the original and the one on...
Here's my latest HJB pickup, from BB Sale 216. My Roman provincial collection is a real hodgepodge. Given the extensive nature of the coin types...
That's really your call. Some collectors and other folks will pay a premium for a slabbed coin, basically because it has been "vetted" by NGC or...
Over the years that I have dealt with Harlan Berk, I can say that most of the purchases were at the estimate price. I did have some Roman bronzes...
Here's my contribution to the pile - nice thread and wonderful coins! Roman Empire, 209-211 AD AR Tetradrachm Laodicea ad Mare, Seleucis and...
I was able to land an owl and a couple of group lots. I was really hoping to win an imitative owl, but got sniped in the final seconds. Such are...
Have found, over the course of attempting to become minimally competent photographing coins, that getting decent images of bronze coins...
Yesterday was kind of a tough day for me. I locked myself out of the house. I was wearing my pajamas, checking for a possible mail delivery when...
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