It appears that the slabs comprise about 90% of those prices. Absurd. I've had a feeling for a while that some dealers who sell common ancient...
Fascinating, @Roman Collector. Do you know if Cornificia had children? I know that Elagabalus's third wife Annia Faustina was supposedly a...
The crescent beneath the bust was used for empresses (and other women) on antoniniani. It's one way of distinguishing them from denarii at a...
Edited to add: @TuckHard's post came in before mine, but mine actually fits his request as well: a bird is an animal, and the coin is from the 3rd...
Thank you so much -- it worked! I would never have figured that out by myself in a million years.
Doesn't Coin Talk's (and FORVM's) own @curtislclay work there? Not only does Berk have a lot of really nice coins, and not only is he ahead of...
Thanks, @TIF. I completely agree with you that the Berk photos don't do the coin justice, and that it's the video that sells the coin. It...
I own only two Roman Provincial coins of Alexandria, both issued under Hadrian. One of them arrived in the mail yesterday, and I didn't realize...
Just fyi, Seaby isn't really still around anymore. CNG acquired its numismatic business circa 1991, and I believe Spink acquired all of its...
I suppose the pandemic could be an excuse if they have fewer employees working than normally, but other dealers and auctioneers seem to manage to...
What specifically is the problem with their customer service? Non-responsiveness to communications? Delays in shipments? Something else?
I have only a couple of sestertii, and this one is probably my favorite: Marcus Aurelius, AE Sestertius, 173 AD, Rome Mint. Obv. Laureate head...
May I ask how you can tell? I have very few bronze coins of the early Empire, and I think smoothing, tooling, etc. are less common with silver...
Right. Just imagine. People would hoard the coins they have instead of selling them, and the supply would quickly dwindle. Instead of bread riots,...
Pinko? I haven't heard that word since before I was born.
Wow, those are some very nice coins -- a whole lot better-looking than the handful of wretched LRB's that I bought as a child of 8 or 9 from a...
Another reason it's not fraud to "overcharge" for an ancient coin, as long as it's described correctly and no material information about it is...
Unless the seller gave a false description of the coin, it's not fraud. Except in unusual circumstances, a seller can charge whatever the market...
It's the law in every state in the USA. A seller can't disclaim the implied warranty that goods are as described.
A new coin book arrived today which I bought on Abebooks and am very much looking forward to reading, as someone who loves Roman Republican coins:...
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