My guess: at least 5x the estimate.
The dealer offered me a refund, but I told him to go ahead and send out the coin. I'm happy with my decision -- but a little embarrassed about...
It would be libel or defamation, not slander. And expressions of opinion rather than assertions of fact don't qualify as such in the first place....
Assuming that the edge shows no signs of casting, I'm leaning towards keeping it at this point -- warts and all! -- even if the dealer gives me...
Thank you.
Not only that, Ken Dorney is no longer a member, so I'm afraid that he won't see your response!
In fact, given how much of the obverse legend on my example is off the flan, I'm not sure it's even possible to tell whether it's an RIC 33 or an...
I confess that I haven't read the whole thread -- do we already have an Elagabalus provincial Nike from Alexandria? [ATTACH] How about an...
Thanks. The only difference between RIC 33 and RIC 35 is that the obverse legend on the latter says "AVGVSTVS" rather than "AVGVST." At this...
Thanks, Curtis. That's very reassuring.
I have written to the dealer to ask him not to mail out the coin, and for a refund, on the basis of the authenticity (and/or smoothing and...
Some close-ups of the sun disk and uraeus on my bronze Apis bull: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] And here's another uraeus, without the sun disk...
Thanks. That's another possibility. @Jochen1's example is actually also RIC I Tiberius 33; the 31 must be a typo. Here it is; the reverse looks a...
Thanks. I don't believe for a moment that this dealer either knowingly sold me a fake, or engaged in any smoothing or tooling himself. But I can...
I included a photo of one of the right-facing variety in the OP, and gave a link to four others at acsearch. I haven't compared them closely, but...
Thanks. The pits certainly concern me as possible casting bubbles. I don't have the coin yet, so I can't tell you what the sides look like. I...
Thanks. I'm aware of that distinction, but in this case I found only five examples on ACSearch. Which certainly suggests rarity, given how many...
Nice example! There's no consensus, though, on whether Julian's bull was intended to be the Apis bull, given the absence of a sun disk and uraeus.
Thanks. As far as I know, these were all minted in Rome, unlike the "Tribute Penny" denarii.
Republican Victories tended to be a lot more racy, both literally and figuratively, than Imperial ones, as in these examples -- especially the...
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