Thanks for the explanation. My photo was, in fact, taken with the light above the coin.
You're misreading what I said. I was talking about price as in the cost of the Shanna Schmidt coin, not Price as in the catalog number!
A beautiful coin. There's something about the simplicity of the design, on both sides, that I really like. Is your magistrate's name likely to be...
A question about coin photography (one of the many numismatic-related subjects I know little about). I haven't heard anything negative about the...
AE is bronze, AR is silver, AV is gold. R. Is right, L. is left.
The price reference was to Philip II, not III.
Wow, thank you! Sounds like a good possibility. Especially because @zumbly came up with the same suggestion.
Thanks for the information. But I added Thebes to the description of my coin, along with 90% of the rest of it. The HJB description was very...
Thanks. Perhaps someone knows of a Greek personal name that begins with Daim, that DAIM- might be short for.
Thanks. By the way, it wasn't only Thebes; I just put that as an identifier people might be able to place. More broadly and accurately, I should...
Not that I know of. I wasn't being serious. Perhaps eyeliner?
On revisiting these wonderful coins, I pick Syracuse, Carthage, Athens, and Thurium as my favorites. Any one of them would stand at the center of...
Wow. So someone began to clean it and changed their mind? Great toning on the rest of it, though. A little black mascara should fix the problem.
Even though the two coins I bought at the current Harlan J. Berk Buy or Bid Sale have nothing to do with each other, I thought I'd post them...
Wonderful coins, @red_spork. My favorite is the Julius Caesar (a type I didn't even know about), and, after that, the gorgeous Quintus Sicinius....
That tiny hippo would make a nice little snack for the crocodile! But it's cute.
I really like the way your coins look, @+VGO.DVCKS -- even though I know less than nothing about medieval coins! The photos are really good too....
Very nice! I will try to find my own Philip III and post a photo.
I would love a Philip II tet. Lifetime or otherwise! But they're awfully hard to find for much less than $1,000 or so in a condition anywhere as...
It really does look a lot like mine -- same year, even -- although the obverse is in much better condition. I wonder why the metal looks so different.
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