I saved this one for last. Because I thought that if I read it a second time, perhaps I would understand it better. I'm still a little puzzled,...
Wow, 74 likes for my opening post? That has to be a record for me. I guess it just goes to show how much people like gold. I should have already...
I have 10 of the 12 Caesars -- all but Julius Caesar and Otho, the two most expensive/difficult ones. But I have only two of those 10 as...
I'm in a dentist's chair getting the first part of a crown done. My phone was in my pocket and posted all by itself.
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@Orielensis, thanks so much for your summary of the article you found. (Much to my regret, my German reading skills aren't adequate for articles...
Thank you, @Al Kowsky. Perhaps needless to say, I agree with you that the visual appeal and 60-year provenance more than make up for the obvious...
Wow; we're getting some tough asks lately!
@panzerman, that Concordia reverse is fantastic!
Given these two coins, I don't understand how Sear could have said that Arcadius "introduced" the type, and that it wasn't used in the West by...
Many thanks to you and everyone else. I think my solidus might have been an example of a coin that could easily have sold for more at auction than...
I'm afraid that it's not really any clearer in hand, but all the descriptions I looked at for this kind of coin call it a vertical thunderbolt.
Not my usual kind of lengthy write-up like the ones I do for Roman Republican coins. But still just as lengthy, somehow! A couple of weeks ago, I...
Maybe they should be described as "dishonest dealers' copies" instead of "collectors' copies." I wish there were a way of finding out who buys...
Wonderful job!
My only example, a drachm issued under Philip III Arrhidaeus that I bought 35 years ago. I can't tell who it looks like. Macedon, Alexander III...
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