This coin arrived today from Sweden (I bought it from @Michael Stolt), and I'm very happy with it. The one thing about it that makes me curious...
Beautiful!
Glad to hear it. I lived in New Jersey for some years and remember his store. I bought a fossilized shark tooth for my son there when he was...
Gordian III was later; I believe he may have been the last to issue ostensibly silver denarii regularly*, in addition to his antoniniani. There...
A truly wonderful example. This is another Republican coin I've wanted for a long time (like the T. Carisius with a sphinx reverse). Almost...
Here are my only two again -- nothing new, I'm afraid. Maximinus I Thrax AR Denarius, 236/38 AD. Obv. Laureate bust right, draped & cuirassed,...
I had no idea that Arnold Saslow is still around. I bought some Egyptian antiquities from him at a coin show in the early 1980s -- I wish I could...
This coin has long been thought to be a product of the Arabia Bostra mint, but more recent scholarship suggests that it was actually minted in...
Beautiful! I would love to have one of these, but they're difficult to find in decent condition.
If you read what I actually said, and look at the actual photos I posted, you'll see that about 98% of the blue color did "disappear all by...
This photo is a bit less blurry than the other one, I think. At least you can sort of see Horus's side-lock, and his right hand raised to his...
And then, as we know, there are certain sellers who apply blue toning to their coins artificially -- a color that, on the coin I bought,...
@TIF, I just watched your truly wonderful video about the coins of Melita (as well as the entire thread following it). Well done! I'm afraid...
One of the main reasons I was looking forward to the NYINC this coming January was that I thought it would be my first opportunity to meet some of...
My own Hadrian tetradrachm from Alexandria (Year 11) with a Canopic Jar of Osiris on the reverse: Hadrian, Billon Tetradrachm, Year 11 (126/127...
I see what you're saying. Very clever -- since it was almost certainly minted in Italy, it must have gotten from Italy to France somehow at some...
No, that's how the line is supposed to look; it's the word OB with a space between the two letters. The last 3 lines read OB CIVES SERVATOS (For...
A reasonable assumption, I think. But who knows, really? I'm happy just to be able to trace my coin back to 1975! I don't expect anything further.
I asked if anyone had heard of this practice. Not for your gratuitous opinion, expressed so dismissively, of what the certificates were worth as...
Thanks!
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