The dealer in question joined VCoins fairly recently; I remember noticing the name. I know it sounds horribly prejudiced, but "Balkan" in a coin...
Thank you. The theory reminds me of the similar one set forth in the Woytek & Butcher article I've cited on occasion, arguing that Trajan's camel...
Gallienus antoniniani with animal reverses, mostly from the Zoo Series. The portraits are of varying quality! Bull (Legionary Series) [ATTACH]...
My one coin arrived today as well. Not ancient. As I mentioned before, nostalgia ruled for a day: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] If you cover William III's...
Wonderful! I love this type of coin. Here's the one I bought last summer, RPC III 3526, COS III, from 100 AD: [ATTACH] Mine is supposedly from...
Pigs, sows, and boars, oh my! Mysia, Kyzikos [ATTACH] Ti. Veturius [ATTACH] Sulpicius Galba [ATTACH] M. Volteius [ATTACH] Hosidius...
You are so unwilling to admit that you're wrong that you've backed yourself into a completely ridiculous and untenable corner. Reading information...
Qqq Does my pointing out that people publicly posted BCD's identity on the Forvm discussion boards as far back as 2004 and 2012 (without any...
I'm not used to seeing Apollo with short hair, but here he is, on a coin I just bought and haven't shown before: Macedon, Philip II (359-336...
Shhh!
It could have been. Richard Rich, the first Baron Rich, was Lord Chancellor under Edward VI and previously held various high positions under Henry...
A even earlier identification on Forvm, this one on December 16, 2004, 17 years ago:...
@Andrew McCabe There are so many public references to the identity of BCD that it never occurred to me that it was still considered confidential...
I could easily be wrong; I was simply stating my recollection. I'll see if I can find where I learned of BCD's identity. It may have been...
Yes, especially in groups like mine, in which one always named one's first male and female child (and usually subsequent children) after direct...
Wow! That's beautiful.
The study of names (particularly given names) is known as onomastics, and there have been quite a few historical onomastic studies that have been...
"BCD" was, I believe, expressly identified as Basil [Vassili] C. Demetriadi in the 2012 Triton XV catalog of "The BCD Collection of the Coinage of...
I'm afraid not; some countermarks can be specifically identified but many are a mystery, and I'm far from knowledgeable on the subject.
Here are two more useful educational pages on real vs. fake ancient oil lamps, on a website that has similar pages on other commonly-forged types...
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