Only after the first time you've bought from him and paid. After that, he trusts you.
I completely forgot to bid on anything this time! Oh well. . . .
Thx. I took it out, & now will put it back in for a while. Scrub it with what afterwards?
I have a few. It's a good thing that there were always so many handy columns standing around in the ancient world to lean on. Lucius Marcus...
Congratulations! I can't wait myself for the next NYINC in January, since of course it was canceled this year. (It took place in 2020 shortly...
Thanks so much, @cmezner. I managed to find the reference at p. 155 of Vol. II of the 1905 printing (from the 1876 revised edition), at...
Those are some snazzy eyeglasses on Bernhard II!
That's a gorgeous coin! I was very much hoping that someone would post a serpent biga, and have had my eye out for one for quite a while. I can't...
Thank you, and to all of you. I don't know if it's exactly over with -- it's something chronic that I've had to deal with since I was 22 -- but...
Thank you! I haven't read about these drachms constituting evidence of Trajan's presence in Alexandria. Do you remember where you saw that? I...
Very compelling and attractive.
Thanks to all of you for your good wishes. I've been feeling better the last couple of days. I still have to write up the three new Roman...
I must say that nobody would ever confuse a portrait of Crispina with one of Lucilla. In every case, their faces are shaped completely differently.
Crispina: [ATTACH] Lucilla: [ATTACH]
My only Faustina II with an all-round legend -- a coin that precedes the twin boys, so I didn't post it in the other thread: Faustina II [Junior)...
I have two coins showing the famous twins, one without and one with the stars above their heads: Faustina II [Junior] (wife of Marcus Aurelius &...
Very nice example! Same type as mine, although on mine the globe is shaped like a pineapple and the cornucopiae looks kind of like a headless...
Using it as a proxy for someone who "does the work," as @Andrew McCabe does, is certainly much more justifiable. Although it brings back some bad...
But how is using an expert to inspect a coin going to provide a missing provenance when the auction company fails or refuses to supply one beyond...
My only clasped hands coin is this Nerva denarius I bought not long ago: [ATTACH]
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