Wow. Someone didn't take their medicine today. By the way, I've got some years left before I hit 70!
One of my very favorite stores back in olden days, for both coins and antiquities.
I've never eaten one, but I dissected one in 9th grade biology. Not my favorite activity.
Augustus As with Pontif[ex] Maxim[us] legend: [ATTACH] Maximinus I Thrax: [ATTACH] Maximus I Caesar: [ATTACH] Maximian (Marcus Aurelius...
I've put only a couple of people on ignore, and I think they were all banned at some point anyway. Conversely, I know of only a couple of people...
But you could send the photos after you take them to your laptop or desktop, and then use the Windows Photo Gallery tools on them.
There are also lots of easy-to-use programs like Windows Photo Gallery that will adjust the brightness, contrast, shadows, highlights, etc. for...
A wonderful example, @Alegrandon. I think this is the only well-done Roman Republican coin with an interesting reverse that I've declined to buy...
Vespasian? Are you sure you don't mean Septimius Severus, who supposedly plucked him out of the ranks?
The booklet has value in that it establishes provenance of the coins back to February 1970, and shows that they weren't dug up and illegally...
Some wonderful coins in this thread, including @Andres2's. I have lots of coins of her husband and son, but only two of Octacilia Severa herself:...
I have no ancient coins with fowl, but I do have this coin that's not ancient: France, AR Ecu de 6 livres françois, Paris 1792 (L'An 4), Mintmark...
Thanks so much to all of you for your very kind words and for the coins you posted. I apologize for not responding to each of you, but when I got...
That's a relief to know!
I realized this morning that I joined Coin Talk one year ago today, on January 29, 2020. This is my 3,055th "message," almost all of them in the...
I think Jesus Vico are pretty reputable -- after all, they were chosen not so many years ago to auction off the portion of the Giovanni Dattari...
Thanks, @jamesicus -- I look forward to getting it in the mail. I was pretty sure it was the same one, because the chances that you owned two like...
Who knows, maybe I got cheated!
Perhaps the difference was that I didn't buy it directly from Spink, but from an online bookstore?
1888? I don't think the catalogue has been around quite that long!
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